THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM.
chap_r(); <span style="color:grey">SIR EGER, SIR GRAEEL.
ON t of one of ts of tic tract of Upper Germany t lies not far from tood many, many years since tle of t. It is noe fallen to decay, and almost buried among beecrees and dark ?rs; above coill be seen struggling, like tioned, to carry a ry.
t family of Katzenellenbogen,+ and ined ty and all tors. tion of till endeavored to keep up some sate.
times old castles, percs among tains, and more convenient residences in till, ttle fortress, cary inveteracy all t erms neig of disputes t -great-grandfathers.
* te reader, tale must ed to ttle Frence, a circumstance said to aken place in Paris.
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t one cer, but Nature, one ces by making it a prodigy; and so it er of try cousins assured s y in all Germany; and up care under tendence of ts, one of ttle German courts, and ion of a ?ne lady. Under tructions ss. By time seen so admiration, and ories of ts in tapestry rengtenances t tory.
S great dif?culty, and all ting; could sign missing a letter, and so legibly t s could read it spectacles. Stle elegant good-for-not abstruse dancing of tar, and kneender ballads of t.
s, too, ?irts and coquettes in ted to be vigilant guardians and strict censors of t of t and inexorably decorous as a superannuated coquette. S of t; never beyond tle unless