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preffions made by the dog's teeth in my nose, and other places in my face, the which nothing but the grave can deface and wear out.

A fourth deliverance effected for me by divine Providence was, faving me from drowning. The manner of it was thus: As I was in company with one of my aunts in the park, where ftands a great, pool of water, called the Horfe-pool, where the horfes used to be watered, my aunt earnestly employed about fome fine small clothes (a fuit of childbed-linen, if I forget not), and leaving me to my liberty to ramble while fhe managed her own bufinefs, I drew near to the pool, and lying down on the bank's brink with my face to the water, and feeing fome living creatures as fmall as horfe hairs crawling in the water, and within my arm's reach, as I thought, I longing to catch fome of them, put my hand into the water, and purfuing them forced my body forward that I could not recover myself again before I funk down from the bank into the water, with my head down and my heels up, the water entering into my body at my mouth and other parts. My aunt miffing me, fhe looks about and calls for me; but neither feeing nor hearing me, the leaves her clothes, and runs to the waterpool, of which fhe was jealous, and there fhe finds me with my heels up in the pool, gone almost out of her reach into the depth. She, in an exceeding great fright about me, takes the water to her own great hazard, and catching fast hold by one of my

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legs, the pulls me to her, and fo brings me out of the water, but with very fmall hopes of my life; for I had been fo long in the water, and the water having gotten in fuch abundance into my body, that for a confiderable time fhe could not perceive the leaft breath in me, which made her conclude I was dead; but it pleafed God that I revived again. Now, reader, think seriously with thyfelf how near I was to a paffing from one deep to another, viz. from that deep pool of water, into the bottomlefs depth of an endlefs eternity. Oh! the adorable and unfathomable depth of God's incomprehenfible. providence! Oh! think of this providence, and give the glory of the deliverance to the God of my foul.

Another strange and wonderful efcape I had, was from a dangerous boar. It was thus: One day my eldest brother, afterwards a counfellor at law, but. now in eternity, and I, walking down to the feafide with a greyhound along with us, designing our fport by courfing rabbits. In the way, the greyhound meeting with a little pig which belonged to my father's herd of fwine, this pig running away from the greyhound, the greyhound follows, takes hold of the pig, the pig cries out; all the herd, which was near fourfcore, comes in to the relief of the pig. I haftened to get the dog off by calling and beating, but the more I belaboured in getting the dog off, the fafter the dog held his hold. The whole herd in a ring about me and the greyhound

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with open mouth, which caused fome fear in me; at the length, while I was beating off the dog, the great boar with open mouth makes at me, mounting up with his forefeet on my breaft, throws me on my back between two furrows. The boar thus on the top of me, with his fnout and tufks belabouring himself to rent my bowels out, the greyhound, which before I could not for my life get off from the pig, now of his own accord lets go the pig, and comes in to my refcue, laying faft hold of the boar which was at top of me. The boar feeling the dog pinch him, he turns furiously about to the dog, quitting the hold he had of me, only one fide of my coat he tore clear away, and had it in his tufks when he turned to the dog. As foon as I felt the weight off my body, I got up in an amazing fright, and made my efcape by running off, leaving the boar and the dog to fight it out. Thus was I preferved by the providence of God ordering that the dog, which before I with all my skill and strength could not get off, fhould quit his hold of the little pig, and fall on the great boar which was upon me, who otherwife, undoubtedly, had torn out my bowels. Oh! wonderful Providence!

Another eminent deliverance wrought by Providence for me, was, by preferving me from perishing by a horfe. Which take thus: I being once chofen to ride a horfe which was to run a race, the ground was fingled and measured out, all other matters relating to the race being agreed on be

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tween the two parties chiefly concerned. When we came to start, the concernedness of each party appeared in striving to get and keep the ftart; the which happened to fucceed well on my fide, as touching getting the start, and making good my ground till I came to the goal, which issued in great and high acclamations of praise to me; which did not a little fill me with a vain-glorious conceit of fome perfonal excellency of my own to which the victory obtained was attributed. But my pride was foon stained; for, there being a river between the town and the place where the race was run, my horfe being very hard-mouthed, and withal fiery and fleet, though finall, I was not able, with all the skill and ftrength I had, to bear him after 1 came to the goal, but in full speed he makes straight to the town, taking the river, which lay between him and home. As foon as he came into the deep, he was taken off his speed, and fell into fuch a jumbling trot, that being almoft fpent and wearied in all my fenfes, he throws me out of the faddle, and being caft on the left fide of the horse, my flipt into the ftirrup, and by the foot I was held. The horse, finding himfelf paft the river, fets to running with full fpeed, my head touching the ground, and, as he ran, my head was ftill a toffing and beating between the horfe's feet and the ftones and gravel of the height which he ran up from the river towards the end of my father's malt-house, which may be about feven fcore yards; all which ground

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ground he trailed me after him, with my head as already mentioned. The fhout and cry was raifed from the other fide of the river to the town, and the horse still in full fpeed, it pleafed God, that the neighbour who lived next houfe to my father's, hearing a vehement and continued cry, arifes from his work within, opens his door, street way, to fee what the matter was, and just as he looked out of his door, he fees the horse in full fpeed, with his rider a trailing along, juft paffing by the door; the man immediately runs before him, the paffage being narrow, ufing his best endeavours and skill to stop the horse; the which he, through mercy, effected, or else that race had been an end of my race; the horse stood stock still while I was released from that fad confinement. All who faw me, cried out, "He is gone! he is gone! there is no hope nor expectation of his life;" the hair of my head all in one lump of clotted blood, nothing to be feen of my face or hands but blood; and a matter of aftonishment it was to all that my neck and limbs were not broken.

Another ftrange deliverance I had from a ho. fe was thus: Riding one day on the chief and fleeteft race-horse which was known to be in the kingdom of Ireland, as I paffed through a gate, in the highroad, just as I opened and entered in at the gate, a little bird flies out of the hedge, withinfide of the gate, at which the horfe ftarted, beginning at the fame time to bounce and plunge, ftriving all he could

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