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the man had observed from whence the dog ſtarted in the morning, and hafted to the place, expecting to find him sleeping beyond the old earthen dike; he found the nest, but the birds were flown -he called aloud; Oscar trembled and clung to Duncan's breast; Duncan peeped through his purple covert like a heath. cock on his native waste, and again beheld the ruffian coming straight towards them, with his staff ſtill heav- ed, and fury in his looks ;-when he came within a few yards he bellowed out; “Oſcar, yho, yho!" Oscar quaked, and ſtill clung closer to Duncan's breast: Duncan almoſt ſunk in the earth; "D--n him, " ſaid the Englishman, "if I had a hold of him I should make both him and the little thieviſh raſcal dear at a ſmall price ; they cannot be far gone-I think I hear them;" he then ſtood liſtening, but at that inſtant a farmer came up on horſeback, and having heard him call, aſked him if he had lost his dog? The peasant anſwered in the affirmative, and added, that a black- guard boy had stolen him. The farmer ſaid that he met a boy with a dog about a mile forward. During this dialogue, the farmer's dog came up to Duncan's den,-ſmelled upon him, then upon Oſcar, -cocked his tail, walked round them growling, and then be. haved in a very improper and uncivil manner to Dua- can, who took all patiently, uncertain whether he was yet diſcovered But ſo intent was the fellow upon the farmer's intelligence, that he took no notice of the diſcovery made by the dog, but ran off without look- ing over his ſhoulder. Duncan felt this a deliverance ſo great, that all his other diſtreſses vaniſhed ; and as ſoon as the man was at of his fight, he aroſe from his covert, and ran over the moor, and ere it was long, came to a ſhepherd's house, where he got ſome whey and bread for his breakfaſt, which he thought the beſt meat he had ever taſted yet ſhared it with Oſcar. Though I had his hiſtory from his own mouth, yet