this Iſland, but what is haunted, either with Fairies or Ghoſts. A Perſon is thought very fool-hardy, who, if any Buſineſs carries him to the North Side ventures to ſtay out after the Cloſe of Day. They ſay ſuch a Temerity has been fatal to many; and to prove it, tell you a long Story of a Man, who quarrelling with his Neighbour, they went out together toward the Sea-Side to decide the Matter with their Swords. In the Combat, the one happened to run the other into the Belly, with which Wound he fell, and the Conqueror was about to return home; when his Wife coming to the Place and hearing what had befallen, ran to the poor Man and to prevent his living long enough to relate with whom he had fought, tore open the Wound her Huſband had made, and plucked out his Bowels. This Murder, they ſay, was never diſcovered till the Author of it, the Woman, confeſſed it in the Agonies of Death: but the troubled Spirit of the unrevenged continues to hover about the Place till this Day. When any Paſſenger comes near his Walk, he comes out, Who is there? And if the Perſon ſo called
