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"What!--gone!" I ejaculated

"Vanished!" said he, and, to prove his words, turned inside out

first one pocket and then the other

"Co up, "there is yet a chance that

we may possibly recover it" Forthwith I led hiayly-painted caravan, but it was gone--vanished

as utterly ashis venerable head, "really

--I particularly wished to secure a sample of

that fellow's pills--the collection of quack remedies is a fad of

mine--as it is--"

"My purse is entirely at your disposal, sir," said I, "though,

to be sure, a very--" But there I stopped, staring, in my turn,

blankly at hi

"Yes," I nodded, "the rascal made off with my purse also; we are

co sir, come and dine with me, my habitation is

but a little way off"

"Thank you, sir, but I aood friends of h I am none the less honored by your

offer"