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morn, he did not like the uncanny beast as a neighbour 
at all. Many other witnesses who gave similar evidence 
were mentioned by the author, who as well described the 
methods adopted to capture the monster, but after much 
trouble and expense it proved too wary and alert to be 
captured or even to be shot, and the enterprise had to be 
abandoned. Probably the monster died, or escaped from 
the loch. 
