. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . , and pitfalls. In this light, therefore, hecame to the end of the valley. Now, as Christian went on his way he cameto a little ascent, which was cast up on purposethat pilgrims might see before them. Up thereChristian, looking forward, saw before himFaithful, his fellow-townsman, of whom he hadheard from the porter at the Palace said Christian aloud: Ho, ho, soho! stay,and I will be thy companion! 110 PEEPS INTO TWO IMMORTAL BOOKS Then I saw in my dream that they went verylovingly on together, and had sweet
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . , and pitfalls. In this light, therefore, hecame to the end of the valley. Now, as Christian went on his way he cameto a little ascent, which was cast up on purposethat pilgrims might see before them. Up thereChristian, looking forward, saw before himFaithful, his fellow-townsman, of whom he hadheard from the porter at the Palace said Christian aloud: Ho, ho, soho! stay,and I will be thy companion! 110 PEEPS INTO TWO IMMORTAL BOOKS Then I saw in my dream that they went verylovingly on together, and had sweet discourse ofall the things that had befallen them in theirpilgrimage, and of what had happened in the Cityof Destruction after Christian had left. When they were got out of the wilderness,they presently saw a town before them, and thename of that town is Vanity. And at the townthere is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair; it is keptall the year long. Almost five thousand yearsago there were pilgrims walking to the CelestialCity, and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with. CHRISTIAN AND FAITHFUL their companions in evil, perceiving that the pil-grims way to that city lay through this town ofVanity, contrived here to set up a fair, whereinshould be sold all sorts of vanity, and that itshould last all the year long. As Christian and Faithful entered into VanityFair, the people wondered at their apparel andat their speech. The town itself was in a hubbubabout them. That which did not a little amusethe merchandisers was that these pilgrims setvery light by all their wares. They cared not somuch as to look upon them, and when askedwhat they would buy answered gravely: Webuy the truth. The behavior of Christian and Faithful solittle suited the people of Vanity Fair that thepilgrims were taken and examined, and thosethat examined them did not believe them to beany other than mad, or else such as came to putall things into a confusion in the Fair. There-fore they took them and beat them, and
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