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 Cool. Juſt as ſure as you are breathing, but be not ſo much dejected upon this information, for I tell you likewiſe, that there is a good angel who attends you, who is ſtronger than the other.

Ogil. Are you ſure of that, Cool?

Cool. Yes, there is one riding on your right hand, who might as well have been elſewhere, for I meant you no harm.

Ogil. And how long has he been with me?

Cool. Only ſince we paſſed Brand's-lee but now he is gone.

Ogil. We are juſt upon Elenſelugh, and I deſire to part with you, tho' perhaps I have gained more by converſation than I could have done otherwiſe in a twelvemonth; I chuſe rather to ſee you another time, when you're at leiſure; and I wiſh it were at as great a diſtance from Innerwick as you can.

Cool. Be it ſo, Sir ; but I hope you will be ſo obliging to me, next re-encounter, as I have been to you this.

Ogil. I promiſe you I will, as far as is conſiſtent with my duty to my Lord and Maſter Chriſt Jeſus: And ſince you have obliged me ſo much by information, I will anſwer all the queſtions you propoſe, as far as conſiſts with my knowledge; but I believe you want no information from me

Cool. I came not here to be inſtructed, by you, but I want your help of another kind.

Upon the 5th of April 1722, as I was returning from Old Hamſtocks, Cool came up