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 7 without reflecting on the consequence, rejoiced in the event, and thought of nothing else than further- ing his escape from the ruthless týrant who now claimed him. For this purpose he thought it would be best to leave the road, and accordingly he crossed it, in order to go over a waste moor to the westward: He had not got forty paces from the road, until he Beheld the enraged Englishman running towards him without his coat, and having his staff heaved over his shoulder. Duncan's heart fainted within him, knowing it was all over with Oscar, and most likely with himself. The peasant seemed not to have observed them, as he was running, and rather looked the other way, and as Duncan quickly lost sight of him in a hollow place that lay between them, he crept into bush of heath and took Oscar in his bosom; the man had observe from whence the dog started in the morning, and hasted to the place, ex- pecting 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 pur- ple covert like a Heath-cock on his native waste, and again beheld the ruffian coming straight towards them, with his staff still heaved, and fury in his looks;--when he came within a few yards he below- ed out Oscar, tho, yho! Oscar quaked, and still clung closer to Duncan's breast; Duncan almost sunk to the earth; D———-n him,' said the Eng- lishman, '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