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MATTHIAS THE HUNTER'S STORIES.

One fine Saturday in November 1836, I found myself at the house of my good friend, the Squire, in Nittedale. It was a very long time since I had been there, but as he is not the sort of man to receive an old friend with a new face, I had to stay to dinner and to drink a cup of coffee afterwards, which was very