"Hum," replied he, "your honor is certainly a stranger, for there's not a child in our village that does not know what that noise means; it is sometimes heard every night for several weeks, afterwards every thing is quiet again for a considerable time."
"But," said I, "who is that person that goes a hunting at night?"
"That I can't tell you at present," answered the watchman, "ask your landlord, he will tell you all the particulars, I am here on my duty, and under the protection of providence, but I dare not speak of what I hear and see."
"With these words he went away:—I wrapped myself up in my cloak, and sitting down by the window on a chair, expected, with anxious impatience, the rising of the sun. At length the eastern sky began to be embroidered with purple streaks, the crowing of the cocks sounded through the village, andthe
