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» “How are you getting on, my dear Ampelisca ?”

Amp. “Only poorly. But where’s your master?”
- Trachalio. “What a question! Of course he is
inside there.” .

- Amp. “Inside! I have never seen him.”
- Lvrach. “1 suppose the dinner i is about ready ? bes
_ Amp. “What dinner?”

Trach, “Why, the sacrifice dinner, to which your
master Labrax invited my master.”

. Amp. “TI see, I see! He has cheated the man,
and he has cheated the god. There is no sacrifice,
and no dinner. Just like him!”

Trach. “Explain, explain !”’

Amp. “Listen, then. After he had made the ap-
pointment with your master to meet him here, old
Labrax took Palestra and me, and every stick of
property he had, and set sail for Sicily. He was
going to sell us there.”

- Trach. “ The scoundrel!”

Amp. “Well, the ship was wrecked, and evety-
thing went to the bottom.”

Trach. “Good Poseidon! But ‘what became of
Labrax?” , a os

Amp. “He died of drinking — salt water.”

Trach. “ Aha! very good. Poseidon sconced him:
to some purpose. But you— how did you escape! a”

Amp. “Why, we jumped into a boat when we saw.
that the ship was drifting on to the rocks, and after
being terribly knocked about, got to land more dead?
than alive.”