Another Inſtance they gave me to prove the Reality of Fairies, was of a Fidler, who having agreed with a Perſon, who was a Stranger, for ſo much Money, to play to ſome Company he ſhould bring him to, all the twelve Days of Chriſtmas, and received Earneſt for it, ſaw his new Maſter vanish into the Earth the Moment he had made the Bargain. Nothing could be more terrified than was the poor Fidler; he found he had entered himſelf into the Devil's Service, and looked on himſelf as already damned; but having recourſe alſo to a Clergyman, he received ſome Hope: he ordered him however, as he had taken Earneſt, to go when he ſhould be called; but that whatever Tunes ſhould be called for, to play none but Pſalms. On the Day appointed, the ſame Perſon appeared, with whom he went, tho' with what inward Reluctance 'tis eaſy to gueſs; but punctually obeying the Miniſter's Directions, the Company to whom he play'd were ſo angry, that they all vanished at once, leaving him at the Top of a high Hill, and ſo bruiſed and hurt, tho' he was not ſenſible when, or from what Hand he received the Blows,
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