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found his death to be approaching, if he had no favorite disciple to whom he wished to bequeath it, he would totter to the woods; and as soon he discovered a tree in the side of which some bird had picked an opening, he would bury the chrystal there, and stop up the clift, so as to under its discovery impossible. He did this because, if the stone were found lying about after his decease, with no properly authorised person unclear to take change of it, it would be the death of every inmate, without exception, who might chance to be ten under the roof of his late abode.