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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 Elensclugh, aud I desire to part with you, though perhaps I have gained more by conversation than I could have done otherwise in a twelvemonth; I choose rather to see you another time, when you are 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 as 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