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the bitterness of this blast is over; we will be no more troubled with them to-day." Foot and horse came the length of Andrew Clark's, in Achengrooch, where they were covered with a dark mist! When they saw it they roared like fleshly devils, and cried out, "There is the confounded mist again! we cannot get these damned whigs pursued for it." I had this account from the said Captain John Mathison.
About this time he was in a house in the shire of Ayr, (James Nisbet, yet living in the Castle of Edinburgh, can bear witness to the truth of this), and one night he was standing before the fire, where he uttered some imprecations upon the cursed intelligencers, who had told the enemy that he was come out of Ireland. When James took him to the place where he was to rest a little, James said, "The servants took notice of your imprecations upon the intelligencers." He said, "Ye will know tomorrow, about nine o'clock, what ground I have for it. I wish thy head may be preserved, for it will be in danger for me; I will take any own time and be gone from this house." Some time that night he went to a desert place, and darned himself in a moss-hag; the next morning James was going with the harrows, and about eight of the clock there was a troop of the enemies surrounding the house; when James saw then he ran for it,
