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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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THE
DYING
MOTHER
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"Mary,
the
wife
of
John
Goffe
of
Rochester,
being
afflicted
with
a
long
illness,
removed
to
her
father's
house
at
West
Mulling,
about
nine
miles
from
her
own.
There
she
died
on
4th
June,
this
present
year,
1691.
"The
day
before
her
departure
(death)
she
grew
very
impatiently
desirous
to
see
her
two
children,
whom
she
had
left
at
home
to
the
care
of
a
nurse.
She
prayed
her
husband
to
'hire
a
horse,
for
she
must
go
home
and
die
with
the
children'.
She
was
too
ill
to
be
moved,
but
'a
minister
who
lives
in
the
town
was
with
her
at
ten
o'clock
that
night,
to
whom
she
expressed
good
hopes
in
the
mercies
of
God
and
a
willingness
to
die'.
'But'
said
she,
'it
is
my
misery
that
I
cannot
see
my
children.'
"Between
one
and
two
o'clock
in
the
morning,
she
fell
into
a
trance.
One,
widow
Turner,
who
watched
with
her
that
night,
says
that
her
eyes
were
open
and
fixed
and
her
jaw
fallen.
Mrs.
Turner
put
her
hand
upon
her
mouth
and
nostrils,
but
could
perceive
no
breath.
She
thought
her
to
be
in
a
fit;
and
doubted
whether
she
were
dead
or
alive.
"The
next
morning
the
dying
woman
told
her
mother
that
she
had
been
at
home
with
her
children.
.
.
.
'I
was
with
them
last
night
when
I
was
asleep.'
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