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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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The
story
would
be
better
if
Mr.
Wilkins,
junior,
like
Laud,
had
kept
a
nocturnal
of
his
dreams,
and
published
his
father's
letter,
with
post-marks.
The
story
of
the
lady
who
often
dreamed
of
a
house,
and
when
by
chance
she
found
and
rented
it
was
recognised
as
the
ghost
who
had
recently
haunted
it,
is
good,
but
is
an
invention!
A
somewhat
similar
instance
is
that
of
the
uproar
of
moving
heavy
objects,
heard
by
Scott
in
Abbotsford
on
the
night
preceding
and
the
night
of
the
death
of
his
furnisher,
Mr.
Bullock,
in
London.
The
story
is
given
in
Lockhart's
Life
of
Scott,
and
is
too
familiar
for
repetition.
On
the
whole,
accepting
one
kind
of
story
on
the
same
level
as
the
other
kind,
the
living
and
absent
may
unconsciously
produce
the
phenomena
of
haunted
houses
just
as
well
as
the
dead,
to
whose
alleged
performances
we
now
advance.
Actual
appearances,
as
we
have
said,
are
not
common,
and
just
as
all
persons
do
not
hear
the
sounds,
so
many
do
not
see
the
appearance,
even
when
it
is
visible
to
others
in
the
same
room.
As
an
example,
take
a
very
mild
and
lady-like
case
of
haunting.
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