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entering the church-yard, I defcried John, 

 rather too fweet upon Elizabeth, and con- 

 ducing her among the tomb-ftones, under 

 the large apple-trees. I inftantly fallied to 

 rout them, which, as I was efFedling, I 

 heard a noife of a tremendous kind, and 

 looking up, faw (it's a fad:) a fierce-look- 

 ing man, mounted on a horfe of great mag- 

 nitude, prancing in the middle of an apple- 

 tree. He fhowered down the pippins like 

 hail upon us, and, as I faw he was about 

 to defcend, I for fear of the worft, took to my 

 heels, and was home, I believe, in a fhorter 

 time by fome minutes than I was the Sun- 

 day before, when there was a danger of a 

 turbot's being overdreft. The parifh have 

 taken it up ; and, I underftand, ftories of 

 the turbot are handed about, to hurt me 

 with the Biihop ; and this laft bufinefs of 

 the apple-tree, is turn'd into very fhameful 

 fcandal. But the above is truth, I am reauy 

 to affirm. I have fince heard, that the figure 

 and horfe came to the earth, and flying over 

 the church-yard wall, were feen no more. 

 I have put fome of the pippins in brandy 



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