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through the Park at night, have been alarmed 

 with the fear of meeting " Herne the hunter." 

 If this be so, it curiously shows the unexpected 

 fact, that superstition holds the same sway in this 

 neighbourhood that it did, when Shakspeare made 

 Mrs. Page (and she is speaking two centuries 

 before his time) say, 



there want not many that do fear, 

 In deep of night to walk by this Herne's Oak. 



