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to lift up the voice with chanting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount and to build a fort. And it shall be unto them a false divination in their right, to scratch out: call them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. --- Hosea ch: 4.v.12. My people ask counsel at their stocks, & their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of where some hath caused them to err, and they have save a whoring from under their scratch out God." --- 1 Dubois, 372. 2 Hosea: 81, 91, 125, 126 267. "They ascribe to their witches. and conjurers, scratch out: who had the power to put on any shape they please, either of bird or beast, but they are supposed generally to prefer the form of a cat or owl. They ascribe to them the power of passing from one place to another in as short a time as they please. To another set of priests, who are supposed to derive their power from the Good Spirit, they assign the knowledge of the divine will, the procurement of scratch out rain by supplication *, the unclear of victory in a ball play, and the power to avert misfortune by conciliating the favor of God." --- 1 Samuel Ch: 12.v.17. 18. Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the