A Human Devil’s (Con Man’s) Pact (….

A Human Devil’s (Con Man’s) Pact (…and if the Devil don’t appear, then the Devil take me).

The Antiquarian repertory: a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times
Edward Jeffery, 1808

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