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 the other three down to the yard, draw out two files, and fire upon them; and, d'ye hear, make a memorandum in the orderly-book of three rebels taken in arms and shot, with the date and name of the place. Drumshinnel; I think, they call it—Look after the preacher till to-morrow; as he was not armed, he must undergo a short examination. Or better, perhaps, take him before the council; I think they should relieve me of a share of this disgusting drudgery.—Let Mr Morton be civilly used, and see that the men look well after their horses, and let my groom wash Wildblood's back with some vinegar, the saddle has touched him a little."

All these various orders,—for life and death, the securing of his prisoners, and the washing his charger's shoulder,—were given in the same unmoved and equable voice, of which no accent or tone intimated that the speaker considered one direction as of more importance than another.

The Cameronians, so lately about to be