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of the day; it being then, he said, between three and four of the clock: but, when he approached as near as he could guess, within twenty paces, they all, immediately, disappeared, though he had never taken his eye off them from the first moment he beheld them; nor was there any place where they could so suddenly retreat, it being an open field, without hedge or bush, and, as is said before, broad day.[1]
- ↑ Idem, u. s. p. 66.
