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 jut emerged, my father expired under the bloody hand of an aain. Like me he was way-laid, and being overpowered by force was led to this place, where his hort confinement concluded with his death. Like him I was to have uffered under the ruffian hand of ervile murderers, but heaven has averted the troke by ending the pirit of my father to my aitance. It was he who furnihed me with the dagger, the intrument of his own death, for the detruction of Fitzurban his mortal enemy, and deperate though jut retribution has lain him at my feet. It is jut now in my power to right myelf. He has bequeathed his own domains to me, and retored what he had unjutly uurped from my father; and thus, my dear Edith, heaven rewards the patience of the faithful ervant.”



JAMES III. of Scotland, having conferred the honour of knighthood on Edmund, for his gallantry in aving his iter from being thrown by her hore at a tag-hunt, ever after made him his favourite companion. Having propoed a hunting match in the Caledonian woods, where a wild boar, the terror of thoe parts, then ranged, he was attended by a number of his nobles, and his favourite, Edmund.

The boar was quickly roued, and the firt wound given by James. Furious with pain, the beat turned on his royal foe, who received him with his pear, which was hivered to pieces by the hock. Already were the tuks of the avage fatened on the noble teed the king rode, when a well-directed blow from Edmund