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"You will sleep here?" exclaimed his host

"I will at all events lie in bed," returned Wogan

The innkeeper took a la stair

"Have a care, sir," said he; "the stairs are steep"

"I prefer theht from you, but there is no rooe I do not like to be jostled on the stairs"

The landlord threw open a door at the top of the stairs

"The roo as it has no cupboards it will serve my turn"

"Ah! you do not like cupboards"

"They fill a poorin

thean ascertained that there were no cupboards There was a key, too, in

the lock, and a chest of drahich could be arret," said Wogan, laying down his bag upon a chair

"Theis small," continued the landlord

"One will be less likely to fall out," said Wogan One would also, he

thought, be less likely to cliht froround; there was no stanchion or projection in