give no more than Seven; which, if you will take, here is your Money. The Owner thinking he had bid pretty fair, agreed with him, and the Money being told out, the one diſmounted, and the other got on the Back of the Horſe, which he had no ſooner done, than both Beaſt and Rider ſunk into the Earth immediately, leaving the Perſon who had made the Bargain in the utmoſt Terror and Conſternation. As ſoon as he had a little recovered himſelf, he went directly to the Parſon of the Pariſh, and related what had paſſed, deſiring he would give his Opinion whether he ought to make Uſe of the Money he had received, or not. To which he reply'd, that as he had made a fair Bargain, and no way circumvented, nor endeavoured to circumvent the Buyer, he ſaw no reaſon to believe, in caſe it was an evil Spirit, it could have any Power over him. On this Aſſurance, he went home well ſatisfied, and nothing afterward happened to give him any Diſquiet concerning this Affair.
A second Account of the ſame nature I had from a Clergyman, and a Perſon of more Sanctity than the Generality
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