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Look at this scarlet bodice with its gold tassels and fringe, at this cap besmeared with the last fee the hag got from Beelzebub or his imps! it will give me a right worshipful air. To match these choice morsels I have this green velvet petticoat, with its saffron lining, and this mask which would melt even Medusa to a grin.
Had he seen the imps of Satan in that instant, it could have had no greater effect. "You have seen them?" I asked. "I regret to inconvenience you; but unless this diamond is produced at once, my friends will put their seal on your goods, your property will be confiscated, yourself in a dungeon.
"Saints be praised!" the pilot was saying over and over. "Saints be thanked! even the Devil's imps can't stand up to detonite shells! And Chet, the poor lad! his gun must have been knocked from his hand; he was fightin' in the dark, too! And they took him down there, they did! down where I'm goin' to see if the lad is still livin'."
Nor was it long before a multitude of sneaking arguments, imps of Satan, began to assemble at the agonized cry of his self-dissatisfaction for it was nothing more.
The local agent told us they were paid for the ten or twelve hours' work fifteen cents each. Their boiled rice and dried fish would cost them four or five cents for the day, and so they would be able to save ten cents. Clothing does not enter into cost when it is not worn, and these little imps were as nearly naked as was possible.
There's a surf running there would knock the ribs together of a galley built by the imps of the pit, and commanded by the Prince of Darkness. Bonnilie and bravely they sail away there; but before the blast blows by they'll be wrecked: and red wine and strong brandy will be as rife as dyke-water, and we'll drink the health of bonnie Bell Blackness out of her left-foot slipper.
They generally left behind them a broom, or a three-legged stool, which, when placed in their beds and duly charmed, assumed the human shape till their return. This was done that the neighhours might not know when they were absent. She added, that the devil furnished his favourite witches with servant imps to attend upon them.
Here he comes, runnin'. Wonder where t'other is? they most generally travel together. We call 'em the Imps, about these parts, because they're so uncommon likely at mischief. Always skeerin' hosses, or chasin' cows, or frightenin' chickens. Nice enough father an' mother, too queer, how young ones do turn out."
Even their few traditions are rude and disgusting enough. I am indebted to Mr. Stuart for a fair example of the Bannack superstitions, from which not even Longfellow could glean any poetry or beauty. Among the caves in the rocks dwells a race of fairy imps, who, with arrow and quiver, kill game upon the mountains, and sing boisterous songs on the cliffs in summer evenings.
"That is good news," said the wife, with a pleased look; "I shall now see the captain and the rest of you leave without a misgiving as concerns ourselves." "You wouldn't feel frightened, Edna, if old Wygwind and his gang of imps should come whooping down upon you?" asked the captain, looking sideways, with an expression of admiration and love glowing from his shaggy face.
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