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The first and second of the following Tales are extracted from "the Scotch Cheap Repository Tracts:" and the third and fourth from the "Cottagers of Glenburnie;" books, which from the important lessons they convey as to the manners and practices of humble life, deserve a place in every Cottage Library.

I accompanied the gentlemen into the garden, and was shewn the place where her own father found his murdered daughter. The grass was red with blood, and the marks of feet were quite visible on the ground, which happened to be soft and wet. In endeavouring to trace the footsteps, we observed that they led over some ground which had been newly dug with the spade and that they had made a remarkably distinct impression on the loose soil. On examining that impression, we saw that there was something particular in the form of the shoe. It was uncommonly broad and large, and round-toed,