Ferris had made out so well he now attempted another capture, but on going through the fence the rails cracked and broke, and he perceived a man behind and opposite the fence sink down and therefore didn't dare to cross, but went behind a tree and watched carefully. Presently the man raised his head, then his body, and at last he stood up straight behind the fence. Ferris then took as good aim as he could in the dark behind a tree to which he had gone for concealment and fired mortally wounding the

stranger who died that night.

It was now nearly day and Ferris re- -treated to Edward Burling's, a quaker, he was acquainted with lived a little above. Burling's family were now up and engaged in making cider it being in autumn. They were surprised to see Ferris whose face was covered with sweat and blackened with gunpowder. "What are you doing here Ferris? How dare you come here?" Ferris then asked if they could not send somebody down to see if those chaps were still there. Burling answered yes, he would send to borrow a scoup. He did so, but Ferris could'nt remain where he was but followed this boy, and presently met several men who knew and were talking about his adventure. They told him he had killed a man and

advised him to be off, pointing out to him several men at a distance on the ridge said, "Look yonder" Ferris answered; "I can out run them." He told them "I have pro- -bably killed the man, for I heard him scream dreadfully." He lost all the cattle he had taken, but secured the cow and oxen hid in the bushes, and drove them off to Round Hill. Tim Knapp left him just before he shot the man and he refused afterwards to let Tim share in his profits.