St Nicholas [serial] . no THE ENVIABLE ERRAND OF MASTER MERRIVEIN. [Dec. And there, with her black cat, was Meg, the Witch o Durley Green. Hold, now, and hearken, sir, cried she; your fortune I have seen!Strange stores indeed of gold and gear this day are waiting you;But he who d find aright must buy my magic snake-tooth brew ! But Master Merrivem the wise, he sagely shook his head,And to the Witch o Durley Green these mystic words he said: Of red alpaca buy a skein — a crock of muffs and things;Green spectacles, a pail of snuff, a pound of finger-rings — Hoots ! Toots! the Witch o Durley crie

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St Nicholas [serial] . no THE ENVIABLE ERRAND OF MASTER MERRIVEIN. [Dec. And there, with her black cat, was Meg, the Witch o Durley Green. Hold, now, and hearken, sir, cried she; your fortune I have seen!Strange stores indeed of gold and gear this day are waiting you;But he who d find aright must buy my magic snake-tooth brew ! But Master Merrivem the wise, he sagely shook his head,And to the Witch o Durley Green these mystic words he said: Of red alpaca buy a skein — a crock of muffs and things;Green spectacles, a pail of snuff, a pound of finger-rings — Hoots ! Toots! the Witch o Durley cried,mid shouts and gibes and laughter,As with her stick upraised in air she angrily sped Jake the Pieman, ran before, a-calling Cake or tart, sir ? And Moll, the gypsy, ran beside, a-crying, Make you smart, sir,

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