... assur. ?? would not be sufficient. He might be 3 mistaken or deceived. Cases of mistaken iden- tity are as plentiful as blackberries, But his verbal or written aeknowledgment, supported I by a few facts and corroborated by a chain of ,eircumnutintal evidence ...

... dhrink he was cruel hard. Av be got the taste ava alt smell o' stserrits off av a boy, he was at him likesa im cock to a blackberry. He'd pick, an' pick, so: pick at him, until he wouldn't lavs a flitticer or es, him, an' ye'd do all sorts to get oct av ...