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Vikram and the Vampire.

pain. Vikram having heard the sound of its lamentations, was pleased, and began to say to himself, 'This devil must be alive.' Then nimbly sliding down the trunk, he made a captive of the body, and asked 'Who art thou?'

He once more seizod the Baital's hair.

Scarcely, however, had the words passed the royal lips, when the Vampire slipped through the fingers like a worm, and uttering a loud shout of laughter, rose in the air with its legs uppermost, and as before suspended itself by its toes to another bough. And