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 pain. Vikram having heard the sound of its lamentations, was pleased, and began to say to himself, 'This devil must be alive.' Then nimbly sliding down the trunk, he made a captive of the body, and asked 'Who art thou?'



Scarcely, however, had the words passed the royal lips, when the Vampire slipped through the fingers like a worm, and uttering a loud shout of laughter, rose in the air with its legs uppermost, and as before suspended itself by its toes to another bough. And