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ere long we must see some one who could tell us where ere But what

distressed round; for though I once carried her on my shoulders, she was more

wearied by my weariness than rested by the rest; and so she would never

again allow o the exertion, and went on very patiently and

cheerfully, while I led her by the hand We had gone rather less than a

quarter of a league when the sound of a little bell fell on our ears, a

clear proof that there were flocks hard by, and looking about carefully

to see if any ithin viee observed a young shepherd tranquilly

and unsuspiciously tri a stick with his knife at the foot of a cork

tree We called to hi nimbly to his

feet, for, as we afterwards learned, the first who presented theade and Zoraida, and seeing theined that all the Moors of Barbary were upon hi with marvellous swiftness into the thicket in front of hi, "The Moors--the Moors

have landed! To arms, to arms!" We were all thrown into perplexity by

these cries, not knohat to do; but reflecting that the shouts of

the shepherd would raise the country and that the uard

would coreed that the

renegade arments and put on a captive's

jacket or coat which one of our party gave hih he hi ourselves to God, we followed

the sa every uard would be down upon us Nor did our expectation deceive

us, for two hours had not passed when, coround, we perceived soallop As soon asthe for

them; but as they came close and, instead of the Moors they were in quest

of, saw a set of poor Christians, they were taken aback, and one of them

asked if it could be ere the cause of the shepherd having raised

the call to arms I said "Yes," and as I was about to explain to him what

had occurred, and whence we canised the horseman who had put the question to us, and

before I could say anything more he exclaimed: