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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
187
Thus,
MY
GILLIE'S
FATHER'S
STORY
Fishing
in
Sutherland,
I
had
a
charming
companion
in
the
gillie.
He
was
well
educated,
a
great
reader,
the
best
of
salmon
fishers,
and
I
never
heard
a
man
curse
William,
Duke
of
Cumberland,
with
more
enthusiasm.
His
father,
still
alive,
was
second-sighted,
and
so,
to
a
moderate
extent
and
without
theory,
was
my
friend.
Among
other
anecdotes
(confirmed
in
writing
by
the
old
gentleman)
was
this:--
The
father
had
a
friend
who
died
in
the
house
which
they
both
occupied.
The
clothes
of
the
deceased
hung
on
pegs
in
the
bedroom.
One
night
the
father
awoke,
and
saw
a
stranger
examining
and
handling
the
clothes
of
the
defunct.
Then
came
a
letter
from
the
dead
man's
brother,
inquiring
about
the
effects.
He
followed
later,
and
was
the
stranger
seen
by
my
gillie's
father.
Thus
the
living
but
absent
may
haunt
a
house
both
noisily
and
by
actual
appearance.
The
learned
even
think,
for
very
exquisite
reasons,
that
"Silverton
Abbey"
{192}
is
haunted
noisily
by
a
"spirit
of
the
living".
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is
a
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