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 hanging over his bedstead, though it had been wholly unnoticed before by the agitated traveller. The host then passed the light before his eyes again, and left the room in the same cautious way in which he had entered it, and, unconscious of the danger he had escaped, returned to a crowd of new and hungry guests below stairs, who were, of course, not very sorrow to perceive that he had SAVED HIS BACON.

Some time ago, two gentlemen, who had been left executors to the will of a friend, on examining the property left by the testator, found they could not discharge the legacies by some hundreds of pounds; astonished at this circumstance, as the deceased had frequently informed them he would leave more than sufficient for that purpose, they made the most diligent search among his papers, &c. and found a scrap of paper, on which was written "seven hundred pounds in Till." This they took in the literary sense of it, but as their friend had never been in trade, they thought it singular he should keep such a sum of money in a till; however, they examined all the apartments carefully, but in vain, and after repeated attempts to discover it gave over the search. They sold his collection of books to an eminent bookseller, and paid the legacies in proportion. The singularity of the