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rammed down with their heels. Day after day the dogs 

 Avere heard in this place, with the howling, barking noise of 

 dogs that were lost. Some people resorted to find them out, 

 and wondered it was to no purpose, for nobody could suspect 

 the dogs were under ground; and thus after calling and 

 whistling them, and seeking them for some time, returned, 

 amazed that lost dogs should continue so long in that place ; 

 but a sight of none could ever be had. The noise was fan- 

 cied to come sometimes from one quarter, sometimes from 

 another; and when they came near the place they were in, 

 they ceased howling, expecting their deliverance was at 

 hand. I myself heard them ten days after they had been 

 buried ; and seeing some people at a distance, enquired what 

 dogs they were. The?/ are some dogs that are lost, Sir, said 

 they; they have been lost some time. I concluded only some 

 poachers had been there early in the morning, and by a pre- 

 cipitate flight had left their dogs behind them. In short, the 

 howling and barking of these dogs was heard for near three 

 weeks, when it ceased. Mr. Wade's dogs were missing, but 

 he could not suspect those to be his; and the noise ceasing, 

 the thoughts, wonder, and talking about them, soon also 

 ceased. Some time after, a person being amongst the bushes 

 where the howling was heard, discovered some disturbed 

 earth, and the print of men's heels ramming it down again 

 very close; and seeing Mr. Wade's servant, told him, he 

 thought something had been buried there. Then, said the 

 man, it is our dogs, and they have been buried alive: I will 

 go and fetch a spade, and will find them, if I dig all Caudle 

 over. He soon brought a spade, and upon removing the top 

 earth, came to the blackthorns, and then to the dogs, the 

 biggest of which had eat the loins and greatest share of the 

 hind parts of the little one." Mr. Hanbury states the deaths 

 of these two sisters in the course of a few months after. 

 The sums they accumulated by their penurious way of living, 

 were immense. They bequeathed legacies by will to almost 



