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"The man humbly bowed assent, and was taken by the Mayor's younger sons
to the Mayor's own house, where he was duly cared for. About midnight,
when all was quiet, he was conducted to the outskirts of the town towards
Clearwater, and furnished with enough money to provide for his more
pressing necessities till he could reach some relatives who reside three
or four days' walk down on the road towards the capital. He desired the
man who accompanied him to repeat to the Mayor his heartfelt thanks for
the forbearance and generosity with which he had been treated. The
remembrance of this, he said, should be ever present with him, and he was
confident would protect him if his unhappy monomania shewed any signs of
returning.
"Let us now, however, remind our readers that the poacher who threatened
Professors Hanky and Panky's life on Thursday evening last is still at
large. He is evidently a man of desperate character, and it is to be
hoped that our fellow-citizens will give immediate information at the
Ranger's office if they see any stranger in the neighbourhood of the
preserves whom they may have reasonable grounds for suspecting.
"P.S.--As we are on the point of going to press we learn that a dangerous
lunatic, who has been for some years confined in the Clearwater asylum,
succeeded in escaping on the night of Wednesday last, and it is surmised
with much probability, that this was the man who threatened the two
Professors on Thursday evening.
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