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    behind a hedge ; looking but for the fitfst mart to rob ! But hunger ta % ddfetoedtte-Miiy poverty , not niy ivill , compelled me to the act The fifrst matt wh 6 came past was £ strong hulky fellow , who seemed to possess no money ; he had on a snioekfrock . As I continued peeping through the hedge-row , I saw another advance , who , by his appearance , I judged had some about him ; but , just as I was slipping over the hedge into the road , he noticed me , and I perceived another person only a

    few yards behind him . Accordingly , I thought it prudent to let them pass ; arid then I moved on along the Canterbury road , looking but for a more convenient spot . I now saw a man , at some little distance , walking on befote me ; he Was alone , and seemed a fit object for my design . I inet-eased taiy steps ; gained upon him , and was about to commit the deed ; when suddenly , as if startled by my approaching footstep he turned round upon me , and exclaimed , with surprise- * - * " HiMo ! Ned , my boy , how are you ? " In an instant I recognized a man who had been a fellow-comrade of my own at Waterloo .

    His name was John Connor ; I knew him well ! " Good God , said I ; but my heart was so full I could scarcely speak to him . He shook me by the hand ; but I was so bewildered that I knew not what I was about ; he saw my confusion , and asked me what was the matter ? and then , little dreaming of what was the real cause of my agitation , insisted on my

    returning with him to Dover , where he informed me that he was married , and had a conimodious house . I have often thought that the circumstance of a friend being the person on whom I thus alighted was a providential interference that prevented my committing an act which would ever afterwards have embittered my future years ; and perhaps , by similar

    interpositions , however unperceived by themselves , many men are saved from the commission of crime . Before parting from my generous dorrirade ; who insisted on my sleeping at his house that flight , I explained to him my abject circumstances , when he advised me to lay my instructions before the Commandant of Dover , who was then Colonel Ford , and solicit from him

    sufficient means to c&fry me to London . 1 his was to bsg , a task Contrary t 6 my nature . I asked him what I was to say ? - ^ -how ft&t *? for I had beeii a soldier since I was sixteen years of age ^ and wiis tinac ^ iiainted With the forms of civil life . He gave me such advice g& occurred to him , and accompanying' me on the road , leihoWed me the house at which the Colonel resided :

    it was , I rtertietftlter , at the end of the town , near to the general hospital . With aft unwilling hand I rung the belli The door was immediately Opened . " Is the Colonel in ?* ' Sard I . * ' Do you wish to fcfceThimT' answeted the footman Purveying my perlon , 4 i I do , * was my reply ; u tell him that a Serjeant

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    226 ? The Rifleman ' s Wife .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/36/