was not worn merely as an ornament of the person the individual described in this summary was familiar to report throughout the province as the his true name was supposed to be robert � but this was almost lost in the popular of rob of the bowl or rob � an which he had borne ever since hia arrival in the province now some fifteen years gone by of his history but little was known and that little was duly in the public by the common tendency in the vulgar mind to make the most of any circumstance of suspicion the story went that he had been on a winter voyage upon this coast and after suffering incredible hardships had saved hia life only at the expense of the loss of both legs by frost in this condition he had reached the shore of the province and some time afterwards built the hut in which he now dwelt by ic rob of the bowl the mouth of st s here he had passed years without other notice than such as the charity of the world affords when it is exercised upon tiie te or fortunes of an obscure this observation began to find a broader scope as soon as it became obvious that the was not altogether an object for and the little world of this part of the province discovering in process of lime that he was not absolutely were fain to take offence at the mystery of his means of earning his before many years some few of the and country people round had found out that bob was occasionally possessed of good much in request by the inhabitants of the port and dark whispers were sometimes touching the manner in which he came by them these were not made topics of public discussion for two reasons � first because it was not inconvenient or to the in the secret to deal with rob � and secondly rob was not a man to allow this indulgence of idle speculation he was of an temper free to strike when crossed and what was still more to be feared had friends who were not unwilling to take up his quarrel the loss of his legs was supplied by a wooden bowl or of an shape to which his were attached by a and this rude contrivance was swayed forward when the owner chose by the aid of two short which enabled him to lift himself from the ground and assume a motion it was to the exercise which this mode of imposed upon his upper limbs that the breadth and of his figure about the shoulders as well as the visible of strength of arm for which he was remarkable were in part perhaps to be attributed use had made him expert in the management of his bowl and he could ke p pace pretty fairly with an ordinary the was a man x f by ic rob of the bowl habits and life although there were times in which his severe temper relaxed into an approach to enjoyment and then his intercourse with the few who had access to him was marked by a sarcastic humor and keen ridicule of action which showed some grudge against the world and at the same time with mankind and by no means a deficiency of education but in general his vein was and apt to vent itself in or stem reproof a small painting of st at his by the hand of himself hung over a dressing table in the back room of the hut in which the bed of the was and this exquisite of art which the possessor seemed duly to appreciate was surmounted by a indicating the religious faith in which he worshipped this might be gathered from a curious antique of heavy gilded metal a ponderous with silver a few old volumes of the lives of the saints and other furniture of the like nature all of which that the of a religious formed an element in his singular compound of character the superiority of his mind and over those of the mass of the inhabitants of the province had contributed to render the an object of some interest as well as of distrust amongst them and this sentiment was heightened into one approaching to vulgar awe by the reputation of the person who had always been somewhat in his confidence and now attended him as his and only domestic this person was the and repulsive whom i have already noticed as in the household concerns of the hut she was a woman who had long a most fame as the woman of in the small hamlet of that name on the of from whence she had been recently to perform the by ic rob of the bowl domestic in which we have found her her habitation was a rude some few hundred paces distant from the hut of the on the margin of st s creek and within of the rear of the black chapel to this after her daily work was done she retired to pass the night leaving her master or patron to that solitude which he seemed to prefer to any society the surly we have noticed alternately kept guard at the hut of the master and domestic � between the two in nightly with a and fidelity � no go between to so strange a pair it will not be wondered at that in a superstitious age such an association as � this of the and the in the vicinity of such a spot as the s lodge had been by the acting of a horrible tragedy should excite far and wide amongst the pie a of terror sufficiently potent to turn the steps of the as the shades of evening fell around him from the path that led to st s the at the time when i have chosen to present him 