ady's hospitality; and in this princely saloon
your behavior has been suited to a hogpen.
You are already swine in every thing but the hu-
man form, which you disgrace, and which I my-
self should be ashamed to keep a moment longer,
were you to share it with me. But it will require
only the slightest exercise of magic to make the
exterior conform to the hoggish disposition. As-
sume your proper shapes, gormandizers, and
begone to the sty!"

Uttering these last words, she waved her wand;
and stamping her foot imperiously, each of the
guests was struck aghast at beholding, instead
of his comrades in human shape, one and twenty
hogs sitting on the same number of golden
thrones. Each man (as he still supposed him-
self to be) essayed to give a cry of surprise, but
found that he could merely grunt, and that, in a
word, he was just such another beast as his com-
panions. It looked so intolerably absurd to see
hogs on cushioned thrones, that they made haste
to wallow down upon all fours, like other swine,
They tried to groan and beg for mercy, but
forthwith emitted the most awful grunting and
squealing that ever came out of swinish throats??

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