The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

THE ANTIQUARY. 129
paff — all should be gone; den you should hear horns winded dat all de
ruins should ring —mine wort, they should play fine hunting piece, as goot
as him you call'd Fischer with his oboi; vary well-den comes one herald,
as we call Ernhold, winding his horn - and den come de great Peolphan,
called de Mighty Hunter of de North, mounted on hims black steed-But
you would not care to see all this?"*
" Why, I am not afraid," answered the poor Baronet, -" if —that is -
does anything-any great mischiefs, happen on such occasions?"
"Bah! mischiefs? no -sometimes if de circle be no quite just, or de
beholder be de frightened coward, and not hold de sword firm and straight
towards him, de Great Hunter will take his advantage, and drag him
exorcist out of de circle and throttle him. Dat does happens."
"Well then, Dousterswivel, with every confidence in my courage and
your skill, we will dispense with this apparition, and go on to the business
of the night."
" With all mine heart —it is just one thing to me-and now it is de time
-hold you de sword till I kindle de little what you call chip."
Dousterswivel accordingly set fire to a little pile of chips, touched and
prepared with some bituminous substance to make them burn fiercely; and
when the flame was at the highest, and lightened, with its shortlived glare,
all the ruins around, the German flung in a handful of perfumes, which
produced a strong and pungent odour. The exorcist and his pupil both
were so much affected as to cough and sneeze heartily; and, as the vapour
floated around the pillars of the building, and penetrated every crevice, it
produced the same effect on the beggar and Lovel.
"Was that an echo?" said the Baronet, astonished at the sternutation
which resounded froml above; " or" —drawing close to the adept, " can it
be the spirit you talked of, ridiculing our attempt upon his hidden'treasures?"
"N-n-no," muttered the German, who began to partake of his pupil's
terrors, "I hope not."
I-ere a violent explosion of sneezing, which the mendicant was unable
to suppress, and which could not be considered by any means as the dying
fall of an echo, accompanied by a grunting half-smothered'cough, confounded the two treasure-seekers. "Lord have mercy on us!" said the
Baronet.
"Alle guten Geistern, lobem de?n Ilerrn!" ejaculated the terrified adept.
"I was begun to think," he continued, after a moment's silence, "that this
would be de bestermost done in de day-light —we was bestermost to go
away just now."'
"You juggling villain 1" said the Baronet, in whom these expressions
awakened a suspicion that overcame his terrors, connected as it was with
the sense of desperation arising from the apprehension of impending ruin
- "you juggling mountebank! this is some legerdemain trick of yours to
get off from the performance of your promise, as you have so often done
before. But, before Heaven! I will this night know what I have trusted
to when I suffered you to fool me on to my ruin! Go on, then-come fairy,
come fiend, you shall. show me that treasure, or confess yourself a knave
and an impostor, or, by the faith of a desperate and ruined man, I'll send
you where you shall see spirits enough."
The treasure-finder, trembling between his terror for the supernatural
beings by whom he'supposed himself to be surrounded, and for his life,' A great deal of stuff to the same purpose with that placed in the mouth of the German adept, may be
found -in Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft, Third Edition, folio, London, 1665.'lThe Appendik is
entitled, "An Excellent Discourse of the Nature and Substances of Devils and Spirits, in two Books; the
First by the aforesaid author (Reginald Scot), the Second now added in this Third Edition as succedaneous
to; the former, and conducing to the completing of the whole work."'This Second Book, though stated as
succedaneous to the first, is, in fact, entirely at variance with it; for the work of Reginald Scot is a compilation of the absurd and superstitious ideas concerning witches so generally entertained at the time, ano
the pretended conclusion is a serious treatise on the various means of conjuring astral spirits.
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