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"I spent it in the forest I had lost my way"

"Ah! then, perhaps, you will be able to convincevery remarkable about the forest; for, to tell the

truth, it bears but a bad na worse than yourself there?"

"I hope I did," was my inward reply; but, for an audible one, I

contented , "Why, I certainly did see some appearances

I could hardly account for; but that is nothing to be wondered at in an

unknoild forest, and with the uncertain light of the o by"

"Very true! you speak like a sensible man, sir We have but few sensible

folks round about us Now, you would hardly credit it, but my wife

believes every fairy-tale that ever ritten I cannot account for

it She is aelse"

"But should not that h you cannot share in it yourself?"

"Yes, that is all very well in theory; but when you come to live

every day in the midst of absurdity, it is far less easy to behave

respectfully to it Why, my wife actually believes the story of the

'White Cat' You know it, I dare say"