L. C. J. He says he remembers the day because it was the day before the feast they had there, and he had sixpence to lay out. Set him up on the table there. Well, child, and where wast thou then?
W. Keeping cows on the moor, my lord.
But, the boy using the country speech, my lord
could not well apprehend him, and so asked if
there was any one that could interpret him, and
it was answered the parson of the parish was
there, and he was accordingly sworn and so the
evidence given. The boy said—
“I was on the moor about six o’clock, and
sitting behind a bush of furze near a pond of
water: and the prisoner came very cautiously
and looking about him, having something like
a long pole in his hand, and stopped a good
while as if he would be listening, and then
began to feel in the water with the pole: and
I being very near the water—not above five
yards—heard as if the pole struck up against
something that made a wallowing sound, and
