l miles together. Then Christian came to a place where
he thought he heard a company of fiends coming forward to meet him,
and he stopped and began to think what it would be best for him to do.
Sometimes he thought he would go back, but again he thought he might
be half-way through the valley. So he resolved to go on, yet the
fiends seemed to come nearer and nearer. But when they were come
almost close to him, he cried out in a loud voice, "I will walk in the
strength of the Lord God." Then the fiends went back and came no
farther.

Now Christian thought he heard the voice of a man going before him,
saying, "Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I
will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." Then he was glad, for he
thought that some one who feared God was in this valley, as well as
himself, and he hoped to overtake him and have company by and by.

Now morning being come, he looked back to see by the light of day what
dangers he had gone through in the night. So he saw more plainly the
ditch that was on the one hand, and the mire that was on the other,
also how narrow the way was that lay between them both. He saw, too,
the hobgoblins and dragons, but all afar off, for after break of day
they came not nigh.

About this time the sun was rising, and this was a great help to
Christian, for you must know that though the first part of the Valley
of the Shadow of Death was dangerous, yet this second part, through
which he had to go, was, if possible, far more dangerous. For, from
the place where he now stood, even to the end of the valley, the way
was all along so full of snares, traps, and nets here, so full of
pits, pitfalls, and deep holes down there, that if it had been dark,
he would almost surely have been lost, but as I said just now, the sun
was rising. In this light, therefore, he came to the end of the
valley.

Now as Christian went on his way, he came to a little hill, and going
up he looked forward and saw Faithful before him. Then said Christian,
"Stay, and I will be your companion."

And when he overtook Faithful they went very lovingly on together, and
talked of all that had happened to them in their pilgrimage. Then I
saw in my dream that when they got out of the wilderness they saw a
town before them, and the name of that town was Vanity, and at the
town there was a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It was kept all the
year long.

At this fair there were sold houses, lands, trades, husban