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exhausted; and seeing a barn near me, I made a shift to stagger thither where the door being open I went and threw myself on a truss of straw, hoping some person would come to my relief I had not lain many minutes, when a countryman came in with a pitchfork in his hand and was going to thrust it into the straw that concealed me had I not uttered a terrible groan This alarmed the clown who stared back with the pitchfork before him; then an old man arrived, who seeing the other in such a posture. cried, "Mercy upon (illegible text) the lead's bewitch'd! Why, Dick, best thou (illegible text) thyself?" Replied Dick "O vather! vather! here be either the devil (illegible text) a dead mon; but his groans woundily" (illegible text) behold me then he addressed me thus: (illegible text) name of the Vather, (illegible text), and (illegible text) Ghost, I charge you and you (illegible text) Satan (illegible text) to the Red (illegible text); but (illegible text) if you be a (illegible text) man, speak that you (illegible text) have a (illegible text) burial. (illegible text) I endeavoured to raise one hand as a signal of distress; (illegible text) making (illegible text) among the (illegible text) to frighten the young (illegible text) that he (illegible text) door, (illegible text) his father in (illegible text) flight—The old man, to save the time of getting
