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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
144
THE
DOG
O'
MAUSE
Account
of
an
apparition
that
appeared
to
William
Soutar,
{145a}
in
the
Mause,
1730.
[This
is
a
copy
from
that
in
the
handwriting
of
Bishop
Rattray,
preserved
at
Craighall,
and
which
was
found
at
Meikleour
a
few
years
ago,
to
the
proprietor
of
which,
Mr.
Mercer,
it
was
probably
sent
by
the
Bishop.--W.
W.
H.,
3rd
August,
1846.]
"I
have
sent
you
an
account
of
an
apparition
as
remarkable,
perhaps,
as
anything
you
ever
heard
of,
and
which,
considered
in
all
its
circumstances,
leaves,
I
think,
no
ground
of
doubt
to
any
man
of
common-sense.
The
person
to
whom
it
appeared
is
one
William
Soutar,
a
tenant
of
Balgowan's,
who
lives
in
Middle
Mause,
within
about
half
a
mile
from
this
place
on
the
other
side
of
the
river,
and
in
view
from
our
windows
of
Craighall
House.
He
is
about
thirty-seven
years
of
age,
as
he
says,
and
has
a
wife
and
bairns.
"The
following
is
an
account
from
his
own
mouth;
and
because
there
are
some
circumstances
fit
to
be
taken
in
as
you
go
along,
I
have
given
them
with
reference
at
the
end,
{145b}
that
I
may
not
interrupt
the
sense
of
the
account,
or
add
anything
to
it.
Therefore,
it
begins:--
"'In
the
month
of
December
in
the
year
1728,
about
sky-setting,
I
and
my
servant,
with
several
others
living
in
the
town
(farm-steading)
heard
a
scratching
(screeching,
crying),
and
I
followed
the
noise,
with
my
servant,
a
little
way
from
the
town
(farm-steading
throughout).
We
both
thought
we
saw
what
had
the
appearance
to
be
a
fox,
and
hounded
the
dogs
at
it,
but
they
would
not
pursue
it.
{146a}
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