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 6 bought three penny rolls, as be passed through a town, one of these he ate himself, another he gave to Oscar; and the third he carried below his arr), in case of fur- ther necessity. He drove all the day, and at night the cattle rested upon a height, which by his descrip- tion, seems to have been that between Gala Water and Middleton. Duncan went off at a side in com- pany with Oscar, to eat his roll, and taking shelter behind an old earthen wall, they shared their dry meal most lovingly between them. Ere it was quite finished, Duncan being sativued, dropped into a pro- found slumber, out of which he did not a wake until the next morning was far advanced Englishmen, cattle and Oscar all were gone. Duncan fountl him- self alone on a wild height, in what country or kingdom he knew not. He sat for some time in a callous stup- or, rubbing his eyes and scratching his head, but quite irresolute what was further necessary for him to do, until he was agreeably surprised by the arrival of Oscar, who, though he had gore at his master's call in the morning, had found means to escape, and seek the retreat of his young friend and benefacror. Dun- can, without reflecting on the consequence, joiced in tde event, and thought of nothing else than further- ing his escape from the ruthless tyrant lo now claimed him. For this purpose he thought it would be best to leave the road and accordingly lie 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 bis shoulder. Duncan's heart fainted within him, know- ing it was all over with Oscar and most likely with himself. T'he peasant seemed not to have observed them, as he was running, and rather looking the other way; and as Duncan quickly lost sight of him in a hollow place that lay between them, he crept into a bush of heath and took Oscar in his bogon; the