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which also had been taken away by another evil woman. When asked why,
if they believed in such means for procuring redress, they also did not
employ it, the reply was that they had done so once before, and v?ith
saccessy but would never so serve the devil again, should they never have
milk from their cows. The most remarkable part of the story is that it was
alleged, without contradiction, that there was scarcely one in the whole
district who had not at some time or other bought back their cows' milk
when it had been similarly taken away. Yet few places are more thickly
studded with KiU and Saints' names, Celtic and Roman, than where we write,
and in few places are people more eager to hear the Gospel, and more under
its influence in their external conduct.
