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 Ogil.] But Cool, tell me in earneſt, if there be indeed a devil that attends muy family tho' inviſible to us all?

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 that at. tends you, that is ſſtronger than the other.

Ogil.] Are you ſure of that, Cool?

Cool.] Yes, there is now one riding on your right-hand, who might as well have been elſewhere, for Imeant 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 now upon Elenſcleugh, and I deſire to part with you, tho' perhaps I have gained more by our converſation, than I would have done on therwiſe in a twelvemonth. I cruſe rather to ſee you another time, when you are at leiſure, and I with it were at as great a diſtance from Innerwick as you can.

Cool.] Be it ſo, Sir, I hope you'll be as obliging to me next rencounter, as I've been to you this.

Ogil. I promiſe you I will, in as far as it is conſiſtent with my duty to my Lord and Maſter ; 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 to information from me.

Cool.] I come not to be inſtructed by you; but I want your help of another kind.

Upon the ninth of April 1724, as I was returning from Oldhamſtock, Cool came up with me on horſeback, at the foot of the ruinous 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, and that there was a vaſt number of things that I wanted to inform myſelf further of, if he would be ſo good as to ſatisfy me.

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