Nothing remarkable occurred for a long time.

The conjurer continued his song at intervals and it was occasionally taken up by those without.

In this manner an hour and a half elapsed; but at length our attention, which had begun to flag, was roused by the violent shaking of the conjuring-house.

It was instantly whispered round the circle that at least one devil had crept under the moose-skin.
But it proved to be only the "God-like man" trembling with cold.

He had entered the lists stripped to the skin and the thermometer stood very low that evening.