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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Not
till
21st
December
did
Mr.
Wesley
hear
anything,
then
came
thumpings
on
his
bedroom
wall.
Unable
to
discover
the
cause,
he
procured
a
stout
mastiff,
which
soon
became
demoralised
by
his
experiences.
On
the
morning
of
the
24th,
about
seven
o'clock,
Emily
led
Mrs.
Wesley
into
the
nursery,
where
she
heard
knocks
on
and
under
the
bedstead;
these
sounds
replied
when
she
knocked.
Something
"like
a
badger,
with
no
head,"
says
Emily;
Mrs.
Wesley
only
says,
"like
a
badger,"
ran
from
under
the
bed.
On
the
night
of
the
25th
there
was
an
appalling
vacarme.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Wesley
went
on
a
tour
of
inspection,
but
only
found
the
mastiff
whining
in
terror.
"We
still
heard
it
rattle
and
thunder
in
every
room
above
or
behind
us,
locked
as
well
as
open,
except
my
study,
where
as
yet
it
never
came."
On
the
night
of
the
26th
Mr.
Wesley
seems
to
have
heard
of
a
phenomenon
already
familiar
to
Emily--"something
like
the
quick
winding
up
of
a
jack,
at
the
corner
of
the
room
by
my
bed
head".
This
was
always
followed
by
knocks,
"hollow
and
loud,
such
as
none
of
us
could
ever
imitate".
Mr.
Wesley
went
into
the
nursery,
Hetty,
Kezzy
and
Patty
were
asleep.
The
knocks
were
loud,
beneath
and
in
the
room,
so
Mr.
Wesley
went
below
to
the
kitchen,
struck
with
his
stick
against
the
rafters,
and
was
answered
"as
often
and
as
loud
as
I
knocked".
The
peculiar
knock
which
was
his
own,
1-23456-7,
was
not
successfully
echoed
at
that
time.
Mr.
Wesley
then
returned
to
the
nursery,
which
was
as
tapageuse
as
ever.
The
children,
three,
were
trembling
in
their
sleep.
Mr.
Wesley
invited
the
agency
to
an
interview
in
his
study,
was
answered
by
one
knock
outside,
"all
the
rest
were
within,"
and
then
came
silence.
Investigations
outside
produced
no
result,
but
the
latch
of
the
door
would
rise
and
fall,
and
the
door
itself
was
pushed
violently
back
against
investigators.
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