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"The musketeers had the vicar's house to guard. One can't sing

and carry the cross too. It was done in the twinkling of an eye,

I say. Plunder, plunder; every thing was carried off. And then

they proposed the amusement of yesterday, to burn what remained,

in the square, and make a bonfire. And immediately they began,

the rascals! to drag every thing out of the house, when one among

them--Guess what fine proposal he made!"

"What?"

"What! to gather every thing in the shop in a heap, and set fire

to it and the shop at the same time. No sooner said than done--"

"Did they set fire to it?"