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quiet and peaceable manner, had seized hold of, 

 and pulled off the guardian's shoulders, a game- 

 bag which he carried, and which, from its size 

 and weighty appearance, he vainly imagined to 

 contain a good stock of the so much desired arti- 

 cle, gunpowder. The guardian, finding himself 

 attacked, had wisely and adroitly cast loose the 

 bag itself from his shoulders, and by this means 

 avoided touching the Albanian, and had escaped 

 getting into quarantine. 



The Albanian ransacking his imaginary prize, 

 finds, to his dismay, nothing but woodcocks, but 

 hardly has he time to be thoroughly convinced of 

 the utter failure of his daring attempt, when four 

 double-barrelled guns close to his breast oblige 

 him to surrender his ill-gotten booty. He casts 

 upon us a look of scorn and contempt, grins 

 fiendishly, and skulks away. 



"If it were not for the quarantine, how I 

 should like to try the effect of a little sparring 

 with that fellow !" Revenge for an insult of the 

 kind is certainly very tempting, and might induce 

 one to commit what would certainly be an act of 

 very great imprudence, as well as very impolitic ; 

 but the consideration that any fray with the Alba- 



