vnpr li-oni vs rww-n a r it it Aiirht nr
nine miles eastward of the city of Edin
burgh, of parents who went hedging and
ditching for their daily bread, and who
brought up this their bloody-minded child
to the same occupation; but as be grew up,
bis disposition to idleness not permitting
him to followan honorable employment, he
left his father and mother, and ran into the
country, where, following a most wicked
life, and taking up a woman as vicious as
himself, instead of living, in any city,
fnu-n nr vi1lrn ttiv tunic lin their hwltritiir
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on a rock by the seaside, on the shore of
c-pire Ualway, where they lived lor up-
trarH ' f t-i-ntr fi v TMn liAvinir twkth
children and (rand-children in that time,
whom they brought up so wickedly that
they never separated, kept no other com
pany but themselven. and mipnnrtprl them
selves entirely by robbing, and, what was
worse they never committed a robbery with
out a murder.
