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17 this child, which I shall carry to his father.'—Saying this he caught hold of the infant, and clasped it closely in his arms. The black guests replied with the most dismal shrieks in the words—' Thou wretch, thou profligate, leave the child or thou shalt perish.'-But despising their threats, precipitated out of the house unhurt, and restored the child into the hands of his father. Some days after this the unwelcome visitors disappeared; when the gentleman returned home, and ever after lived as a true christian.

It is really amazing how any body can deny themselves the pleasure of believing such strange facts as these; and especially the following.

A young Girl clasped round the neck by a Skeleton.

On a fine summers evening, as several peasants were enjoying themselves after the labours of the day, and sitting upon the grass, reciting dreadful stories of ghosts and apparitions: one of them, who pretended to be wiser than the rest of his companions, affected to laugh at the different stories lie heard, and affirmed that those absurdities were only fit to amuse old women and children. Since you pretend to be so very courageous, said one of them, prove it to us, by going this night into the burying ground, and bring with you the skeleton