ath was
about the wager with their brother-in-law.

"Now," said they, "as the devil has run away with the swine, Tim cannot
produce her, so we will force him to come and live with us again."

Thereupon they set off straight for the house, because it was already
getting light; but on their arrival they found that they had lost their
wager, and that it was not the devil who had routed them in the deserted
cottage, but their brother-in-law.

"Oh, you precious rascal!" said they, "you nearly killed us with terror."

"There's no help, brothers," he replied, "you were thinking of taking two
hundred roubles from me, but now you have to pay them to me."

After some demur, he received the money from them, and began to live in a
highly respectable manner.

LONDON:
Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W.

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