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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"'We
immediately
sent
to
the
other
side
of
the
water,
to
Claywhat,
{151}
to
a
wright
that
was
cutting
timber
there,
whom
Claywhat
brought
over
with
him,
who
immediately
made
a
coffin
for
the
bones,
and
my
wife
brought
linen
to
wrap
them
in,
and
I
wrapped
the
bones
in
the
linen
myself
and
put
them
in
the
coffin
before
all
these
people,
and
sent
for
the
mort-cloth
and
buried
them
in
the
churchyard
of
Blair
that
evening.
There
were
near
an
hundred
persons
at
the
burial,
and
it
was
a
little
after
sunset
when
they
were
buried.'"
"This
above
account
I
have
written
down
as
dictated
to
me
by
William
Soutar
in
the
presence
of
Robert
Graham,
brother
to
the
Laird
of
Balgowan,
and
of
my
two
sons,
James
and
John
Rattray,
at
Craighall,
30th
December,
1730.
"We
at
Craighall
heard
nothing
of
this
history
till
after
the
search
was
over,
but
it
was
told
us
on
the
morrow
by
some
of
the
servants
who
had
been
with
the
rest
at
the
search;
and
on
Saturday
Glasclune's
son
came
over
to
Craighall
and
told
us
that
William
Soutar
had
given
a
very
distinct
account
of
it
to
his
father.
"On
St.
Andrew's
Day,
the
1st
of
December,
this
David
Soutar
(the
ghost)
listed
himself
a
soldier,
being
very
soon
after
the
time
the
apparition
said
the
murder
was
committed,
and
William
Soutar
declares
he
had
no
remembrance
of
him
till
that
apparition
named
him
as
brother
to
George
Soutar;
then,
he
said,
he
began
to
recollect
that
when
he
was
about
ten
years
of
age
he
had
seen
him
once
at
his
father's
in
a
soldier's
habit,
after
which
he
went
abroad
and
was
never
more
heard
of;
neither
did
William
ever
before
hear
of
his
having
listed
as
a
soldier,
neither
did
William
ever
before
hear
of
his
having
killed
a
man,
nor,
indeed,
was
there
ever
anything
heard
of
it
in
the
country,
and
it
is
not
yet
known
who
the
person
was
that
was
killed,
and
whose
bones
are
now
found.
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