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occupied between the table
and the overturned chair.

3. M^rs Burns had been
occupied in needlework
at the other end of the table.
She had been sitting in an
angle of the wall formed
by the fireplace, which
latter was at her back, and,
as it were, behind her
left arm. She had been
killed by an axe which
stood in the fireplace, and
the Blacks had seized the
moment when she jumped
up to assist her husband,
and was no longer sheltered
by the corner in which she
had been sitting, to strike
her in the face with the axe.
She had been knocked back
against the upright post
forming the corner of the
chimney, and then, staggering
into the middle of the
room, had been struck
again in the face with
the axe, and had fallen
dead