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cace in Israel!—Touch not! taste not! see the dog dead by the poisoned pot!'
'What!' cried the farmer,'have you been raising the devil by your conjuration? Is this the effect of your study, sir?—No, father,' said the student, I pretend to no such arts of magic or necromancy, but this day, as the boy can testify, I had a solemn warning from one whom I take to be no demon, but a good angel. To him we all owe our lives. As to Peggy, according to his intimation, she has put poison into the pot for the purpose of destroying the whole family root and branch!'— Here the girl fell into a fit, from which being with some difficulty recovered, she confessed the whole of her deadly design, and was suffered to withdraw from the family and her native country.
Black and White Devils.
The following interesting particulars of a singular apparition is related by Mr Lackington, in his life,—In the workhouse belonging to the parish of St James', at Taunton, in Somersetshire, there lived a young woman who was naturally an idiot! this poor creature had somehow a great aversion to sleeping in a bed, and at the usual hour of rest, would often slip away to a field in the neighbourhood.
