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who were also in a state bordering on petri- 

 faction, until the boldest of our party pro- 

 posed, in a whisper, that we should take 

 hands and go to the spot to see what it was 

 that stood in our way : but the moment we 

 advanced, the object darted from the shade 

 towards the path, where we followed it, and 

 soon recognized the figure of a well-known 

 smuggler, who kept an inn in the village. 

 His fears gave wings to his heels, yet we 

 overtook him, and seizing him by the frock, 

 soon convinced the affrighted Boniface that 

 we had not yet been under ground. He very 

 properly reprimanded us, and told us that he 

 had really imagined that we had come from 

 the graves, but added that such another frolic 

 would be the death of us all. However, if 

 we would go back to the yew-tree, he would 

 give us something to prevent catching cold. 

 Here he produced a small cask of Hollands 

 gin which had been hid in the hedge, and 

 after making a hole with a gimblet, and putting 

 in a quill which he carried with it, we all 

 sucked out of the cask, making him promise 

 never to divulge whom he had seen, and 

 which, for his own sake, he kept sacred. We 

 all returned to our chamber, slept soundly, 

 caught no cold, and never after heard a gho&t 



