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IX."I'll wager a dinner," the other one cried,"That Mary would venture there now.""Then wager and lose!" with a sneer he replied,"I'll warrant she'd fancy a ghost by her side,"And faint if she saw a white cow."
X."Will Mary this charge on her courage allow?"His companion exclaim'd with a smile;"I shall win, for I know she will venture there now,"And earn a new bonnet by bringing a bough"From the elder that grows in the aisle."
XI.With fearless good humour did Mary comply,And her way to the Abbey she bent;The night it was dark, and the wind it was high,And as hollowly howling it swept thro' the skyShe shiver'd with cold as she went.
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