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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"Widow
M'Laren,
aged
seventy-nine,
a
native
of
Braemar,
but
who
has
resided
on
the
Craighall
estate
for
sixty
years,
says
that
the
tradition
is
that
the
man
was
murdered
for
his
money;
that
he
was
a
Highland
drover
on
his
return
journey
from
the
south;
that
he
arrived
late
at
night
at
the
Mains
of
Mause
and
wished
to
get
to
Rychalzie;
that
he
stayed
at
the
Mains
of
Mause
all
night,
but
left
it
early
next
morning,
when
David
Soutar
with
his
dog
accompanied
him
to
show
him
the
road;
but
that
with
the
assistance
of
the
dog
he
murdered
the
drover
and
took
his
money
at
the
place
mentioned;
that
there
was
a
tailor
at
work
in
his
father's
house
that
morning
when
he
returned
after
committing
the
murder
(according
to
the
custom
at
that
date
by
which
tailors
went
out
to
make
up
customers'
own
cloth
at
their
own
houses),
and
that
his
mother
being
surprised
at
his
strange
appearance,
asked
him
what
he
had
been
about,
to
which
inquiry
he
made
no
reply;
that
he
did
not
remain
long
in
the
country
afterwards,
but
went
to
England
and
never
returned.
The
last
time
he
was
seen
he
went
down
by
the
Brae
of
Cockridge.
A
man
of
the
name
of
Irons,
a
fisherman
in
Blairgowrie,
says
that
his
father,
who
died
a
very
old
man
some
years
ago,
was
present
at
the
getting
of
the
bones.
Mr.
Small,
Finzyhan,
when
bringing
his
daughter
home
from
school
in
Edinburgh,
saw
a
coffin
at
the
door
of
a
public
house
near
Rychalzie
where
he
generally
stopped,
but
he
did
not
go
in
as
usual,
thinking
that
there
was
a
death
in
the
family.
The
innkeeper
came
out
and
asked
him
why
he
was
passing
the
door,
and
told
him
the
coffin
contained
the
bones
of
the
murdered
man
which
had
been
collected,
upon
which
he
went
into
the
house.
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