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13 more by conversation than I could have otherwise done in a twelvemonth; I choose rather to see you another time, when you're at leisure; and I wish it were at as great a distance from Innerwick es 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 fifth of April, 1722, as I was returning from Old Hamstocks, Cool came up with me on horse-back, at the foot of the ruinons inclosure, before we came to Dod: I told him his last conversation had proved so acceptable to me, that I was well pleased to see him again; that there was a number of things that I wanted to inform myself further of, if he would be so good as satisfy me.

Cool.— Last time we met, I refused you nothing you asked, and now I expect that you shall refuse me nothing that I shall ask.

Ogil.— Nothing, Sir, that is in my power, or that I can do with safety to my reputation and character as a Christian. What then are your demands?

Cool.— All that I desire of you is, that as you promised that on a Sabbath day you would go to my wife, who now possesses all my effects, and tell her the following particulars, and tell her in my name to rectify these matters. First, That I was owing justly to Provost Crosby, 50'. Scots, and three years' Interest, but on hearing of his death, my good brother the Laird of C—, and I, forged a discharge, narrated