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harm in forbidding a person who came to do what is nasty before his door. However if, as you say, he beat the girl you have return’d the beating, & there is no more to be said”. On this they went away & I went home.
Next morning early I went to Balliagaut, & returned the same day about noon, & while I was eating my dinner I heard that the prisr was taken up on account of the girl, and that she was dd.
I don’t remember what day of the week it was