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little whip and a basket, which I had always seen on a shelf, in t'other hand; so he went in and shut the door without seeing me, being in the dark: I thought it was cruel strange, so next day I looks in the basket, and seed crumbs of bread, so then I looked at the loaf, and some of it was gone. Well, Sir, I said nothing, but I made a hole on one side of my chamber door, and when I went to bed I marked the loaf; so instead of going in to bed I watched at the hole, and at midnight I saw him come out with the same things in his hands, and go down stairs, and after a little time I heard the same cries.—Lord! how I was afrightened; so after a time back he came, and next morning I looked at the loaf—a good piece was gone; so when I carried it in to breakfast, I said I believes the fairies or ghosts eat our bread, for I am sure it goes faster than we eat it. That's nothing to you, said he, with such a terrible look as made me shake again; you don't pay for it, and no matter which way it goes; so, Sir, from that day I said no more.