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THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SHADOW, 

 {Continued from page 39.) 



The next day Schlemiht went among the merchants to purchase 

 every luxury he could possibly think of, resolving to make himself 

 happy ; but wherever he went, everybody came out to see " the Man 

 without a Shadow," the women especially annoyed him by their 

 sarcastic pity. On his return home he burst into tears, his agony 

 of mind was more than he could bear, he repented bitterly of 

 his bargain and was resolved to undo it if possible. He sent his 

 valet to the house of Mr. John, to enquire about the Man in Grey, 

 but to no purpose for he returned without having learnt any thing 

 of him. 



At last an idea came into his mind that he might get a painter to 

 paint him a shadow, with this impression, he sent for an Artist of 

 eminence, who resided in the town. On his waiting upon him, he 

 told him he had had the misfortune to loose his shadow, which had 

 been frozen in Russia one very severe frost, and he had sent for him 

 in tho hope that he might be able to provide him with a substitute 

 for the one he had lost. The artist imagining he was being made a 

 fool of, threw upon him a look of contempt and left him. What was 

 now to be done ? After much anxious thought and deliberation he 

 resolved never to go out alone, but always to have his servant 

 by his side, so that the man's shadow might be taken for his 

 own. This plan, like the other, was, however, a failure, and he now 

 determined to keep himself shut up in the house during the day, and 

 to go out only during the night, but the moon-light nights always 

 discovered to him his misery. The circumstance of his having no 

 shadow had now become so notorious and was now in everybody's 

 mouth, that he was compelled to leave the place : he departed and 



went to a town some distance from and here his splendid 



equipage, and the gold that he squandered in every direction, got 

 him a great name and the people got it up that he was a prince ; he 

 had not been here long before he met with a beautiful young lady 



