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THE DEATH OF THE BLINDED DEVIL.

CHAP. X. is Issi ("himself"). When the lead is melted, the devil opens his eyes wide to receive the deadly stream. As soon as he is blinded he starts up in agony, bearing away the bench to which he had been bound, and when some workpeople in the fields ask him who had thus treated him, his answer is "Issi teggi" (Self did it). With a laugh they bid him lie on the bed which he has made; "selbst gethan, selbst habe." The devil died of his new eyes, and was never seen again.