wife of the above were dead and buried and thai alexander and infant children of the were also dead and buried and that the dark flat wilderness beyond churchyard with and and gates with scattered cattle feeding the and that the low leaden was the river and that the distant savage which the wind was rushing was the sea and that the bundle of growing afraid of it all beginning to cry was hold your noise cried a terrible voice as a started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch keep you little devil ov i ll cut your throat a fearful man all in coarse grey with a great his leg a man with no hat and with broken shoes ad with an old rag tied round his head a man ad been soaked in water and smothered in mud � by stones and cut by and stung by ne ties and torn by who and shivered and growled and whose teeth in his e� d aa he me by the o don t tut my throat sir i pleaded iu terror don t do it air � said the man quick said i my tell as sir once mi sir show us where you the place i pointed to where lid tie pint � village lay flat � the trees and a mile fi om the church the man after looking at me for a moment turned i � down and emptied my pockets there waa in them but a piece of bread when the came to itself � for he was ho sudden and that he made it go head over heels before e the st under my � when the came to itself i say i was heated on a high trembling while he ate the bread � w tou young dog said tlie man his lips what fat cheeks you ha got i believe they were fat though i was at that time for my years and strong i l me if i couldn t eat em said the man i a threatening of his head and if i han t i a mind to tl i my that he wouldn t i ud held to the oa which he me to keep myself npon it partly to now then here said the man your mother there i he started made a short run and stopped looked over his shoulder there sir i timidly explained also that s my mother said he coming back and ia that your mother yes sir said i him too late of this he muttered then considering who d ye live with � you re kindly let to live whidi i han t made up my mind about my sir � mrs joe � e d joe the sir blacksmith eh said ho and looked down ai bis leg after darkly looking at his leg and at me several he came closer to my took i i arms and me back as far as he could that his eyes looked most powerfully dow mine and mine looked most helplessly up into i now here he the question whether you re to be let to live you know what i file ia yes sir � and you know what is yes sir after each question he me over a little bo as to give mo a greater sense of danger ot me a file he me again an rag me b ha ms q � l both to me he me again or i ll heart and liver oat he me again was frightened and so giddy that i � j to him with both hands and said if you il i please to let me p air per � i t bo sick and perhaps i attend gave me a most dip and roll so r the church jumped over its own he held ine by the arms in an position e top of the stone and went on in these fearful you bring mc to morrow morning early that file them you bring the lot to me at that battery over yonder you do it and yoa never t� say a word or e to make a sign concerning having seen such a person as me or any person i ver and you shall be let to live y ou fail or yoa from my words in any no matter how � ill it is and your heart and your liver shall he tore and ate now i ain t alone as you may ik i am there s a young man hid with me in lip with which young m m i am a angel i yoimg hears the words i speak that young n has a secret way to himself of getting at a and at his heart and at his liver it is in for a i to attempt to hide himself m that young man a may lock his door may be warm in bed may � i up may draw the clothes over hia head may himself comfortable and safe hut that young ii will softly creep and creep his way to mm a ii him open i tm a keeping that man � � � d with � i it to that young mi off of inside now do you say i said that i would get liim the file and i wc get him what broken bits of food i could and i wc come to him at the battery early in the morning say lord strike you dead if you don t said i said so and he took me down now he you remember what and you remember that young ma you get home good night sir i faltered much of that said he glancing about him oi the cold wet flat i wish i was a or a at same time he hia shuddering 