was taken away by an inviſible Hand. Thoſe who had left her, having enquired about the Neighbourhood, and finding there was no Cauſe for the Out-cry they had heard, laugh'd at each other for the Miſtake; but as they were going to reenter the Houſe, the poor Babe lay on the Threshold, and by its Cries preſerv'd itſelf from being trod upon. This exceedingly amazed all that ſaw it, and the Mother being ſtill in Bed, they could aſcribe no Reaſon for finding it there, but having been remov'd by Fairies, who, by their ſudden Return, had been prevented from carrying it any farther.
About a Year after, the ſame Woman was brought to Bed of a Second Child, which had not been born many Nights before a great Noiſe was heard in the Houſe where they kept their Cattle; (for in this Iſland, where there is no Shelter in the Fields from the exceſſive Cold and Damps, they put all their Milch Kine into a Barn, which they call a Cattle-Houſe.) Every body that was ſtirring, ran to ſee what was the matter, believing that the Cows had got looſe: the Nurſe was as ready as the reſt, but finding all
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