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THE DEVIL'S TIRING HOUSE
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"I take it that them horses is all ready; so bear in mind that my friend Jack Ketch is new to the game, and stick by him, and good luck to you devils, and may the mists guard the legion from all damned swabs!" And so the company filed out of the Devil's Tiring House after receiving this parting blessing at the hands of the sexton.
"Ain't you coming along, Hellspite?" said one of the ghastly crew to the sexton.
"No, Pontius Pilate, I ain't," replied Mipps, "for me and the blunderbuss is a-goin' to watch that damned meddlesome captain."
And so they left him there, Beelzebub leading Jerry by the hand out of the back door of Old Tree Cottage.
