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 him to sleep in the house.

Mr. S conversed with him often on the fields, and found, though an untutored man, he had great strength and understanding and uncommon energy of mind and expression. He was always anxious to hear the newspapers, which Mr. S, as is not unusual in this part of Ireland, often read to the labourers of an evening, after their work was finished. On one of those occasions he stumbled on a paragraph, beginning with, "Whereas a most daring robbery" At this instant his eyes rested on the countenance of the stranger—the expression struck him as so singular that he discontinued, his reading. On retiring to his room he read the article in question. It gave an account of a most daring robbery, committed a short time before, by four armed ruffians, one of whom, was killed and another supposed to be desperately wounded; an exact description of the person of the latter followed, and Mr, S had little doubt that he was the stranger whom he had taken into his family. He did