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hood considered it fine sport to pay him a visit of a 

 dark night, and signalize their presence by a shower 

 of stones. His food was never luxurious, being 

 cooked by himself under many disadvantages and 

 with few utensils; and when his money became 

 scant, it was supplied mainly through the charity of 

 the neighbors. He had no bedding and no change 

 of clothes ; and when a murder was committed near 

 by, and the murderer was hunted through the place 

 by constables, officers, and half the people as posse 

 comitatus, accompanied by all the dogs in the vil 

 lage ; and the crowd, yelling, screaming, and fighting, 

 rushed over the watchman s kennel at midnight, wak 

 ing him out of sleep, he could stand it no longer, but 

 incontinently fled to parts unknown; so that Sille 

 had not arrived too soon, and found e\vry thing 

 needing care and attention. He went to work at 

 once, and, bringing order out of chaos, began rapidly 

 to construct the confused mass of material into the 

 form and stature of a dwelling. 



Murders are abhorrent things to me ; either from 

 some natural idiosyncracy, or from the training of 

 my profession, which teaches obedience to the pow 

 ers that be, and prefers technicalities to violence, I 

 have a positive objection to murdering any one or 

 being murdered myself especially the latter. It is 



