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formed to him. After the foresaid cruel man got the job ultimately finished, he asked at one, though three men already mentioned, what was his demand for his trouble, to which his reply sixpence. Then each of the other two demanded the same wages, being associal or united in the same trade, and fellow-partners in repairing the pistol. After he had settle with each of them, he handed the pistol, addressing his speech to them, that it was requisite for him to try how the pistol would fire after the repairing of it, attended with such considerable expense. In prosecution of his attrocious design, he point or direct toward one of them as object, who was forthwith shot dead. Thus they was rewarded at last by that bloody monster.
Two great stones in the vicinity of Loch-Earn-head, so close to each other, that it is probably that they were in sometime after the creation of the universe; but as to the convulsion that the stone parted asunder, it passed the human idea. In the time of old, a man of uncommon strength, called by first name Envie, who was on some emergent occasion pursued by his enemies, being thirsty to be satiated of his blood, who became languid in consequence of his weary lassitude by the sanguinary pursuit of his enemies, in the direct-
