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for her eyes were clofe (hut. In this condition, {he would leap up 

 upon ftools and tables, with furprifing agility ; then fhe would get 

 out of the cottage, where fhe lived with her father, mother, and bro- 

 ther, and run with great violence, and much fafter than fhe could do 

 when well, but always with a certain deftination to fome one place in 

 the neighbourhood ; and to which place flie often faid, when fhe found 

 the fit coming upon her, that Ihe was to go; and, after fhe had gone to 

 the place ot her deflination, if (he did not there awake, fhe came back with 

 the fame certain diredion, tho' fhe did not always keep the high road, but 

 frequently went a nearer way acrofs the fiields ; and tho' her road, for this 

 reafon, was often very rough, fhe never fell, notwithftandingthe violence 

 with which fhe ran. But all the while fhe ran, her eyes were quite 

 fliut, as her brother attefls, who often ran with her to take care of 

 her, and who, though he was much older, flronger, and cleverer, than 

 fhe, was hardly able to keep up with her. When Ihe told, before the fit 

 came on, to what place flie was to run, fhe faid fhe dreamed the night 

 before, that fhe was to run to that place ; and, though they fomrtimes 

 diffuaded her from going to a particular place, as to my houfe, for ex-» 

 ample, where they faid the dogs would bite her, fhe faid fhe would 

 run that way, and no other. When fhe awaked, and came out of her 

 delirium, flie found herfelf extremely weak; but foon recovered her 

 ftrength, and was nothing the worfe for it, but, on the contra- 

 ry, was much the worfe for being reftrained from running. Wlien 

 fhe awaked, and came to herlelf, fhe had not the lead remem- 

 brance of what had pafTed whde fhe was afleep. Sometimes flie 

 would run upon the top of the earthen fence which furrounded her 

 father's little garden ; and, though the fence was of an irregu- 

 lar figure, and very n.-^rrow at top, yet flic never fell from it, 

 nor from the top of the houfe, upon which flie would fometimes get 

 by the affillance of this fc ce, though her eyes were then likewife 

 Ihut. Some time before the d f-rdvT Kft her, flie dreamed, as fhe faid, 

 that the water of a "eil in t!ie neighbourhood, called the cbiping nr Jl^ 

 would cure her ; and, accordingly, fhe drank of it very plentifully, 



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