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 arm; in the same hurried manner he tore off the dressing from the sore; the hand had been shattered by a ball, and had been amputated by a country apothecary in a bungling manner. The sight of the wound filled Mr. S with horror: it was covered with filth, and crawling with maggots.

"I have suffer'd this," said the robber, "without a groan; I could go to the gallows without a tear; but cannot bear your goodness, it over comes me."

It did fully overcome him, for he wept and sobbed aloud. He then, to the astonishment of Mr. S, confessed that he was not in his employment by accident, but in consequence of a scheme of his manservant, Dennis. He had been sheltered in the cabin of the father of the latter, before he applied to Mr. S for employment. The misguided man had often meditated robbing his master, but shrunk dismayed from so daring a crime. The presence of so adventurous a robber encouraged him. He opened his plan to him to which