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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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The
last
mention
of
the
affair,
at
this
time,
is
in
a
letter
from
Emily,
of
1st
April,
to
a
Mr.
Berry.
"Tell
my
brother
the
sprite
was
with
us
last
night,
and
heard
by
many
of
our
family."
There
are
no
other
contemporary
letters
preserved,
but
we
may
note
Mrs.
Wesley's
opinion
(25th
January)
that
it
was
"beyond
the
power
of
any
human
being
to
make
such
strange
and
various
noises".
The
next
evidence
is
ten
years
after
date,
the
statements
taken
down
by
Jack
Wesley
in
1726
(1720?).
Mrs.
Wesley
adds
to
her
former
account
that
she
"earnestly
desired
it
might
not
disturb
her"
(at
her
devotions)
"between
five
and
six
in
the
evening,"
and
it
did
not
rout
in
her
room
at
that
time.
Emily
added
that
a
screen
was
knocked
at
on
each
side
as
she
went
round
to
the
other.
Sukey
mentioned
the
noise
as,
on
one
occasion,
coming
gradually
from
the
garret
stairs,
outside
the
nursery
door,
up
to
Hetty's
bed,
"who
trembled
strongly
in
her
sleep.
It
then
removed
to
the
room
overhead,
where
it
knocked
my
father's
knock
on
the
ground,
as
if
it
would
beat
the
house
down."
Nancy
said
that
the
noise
used
to
follow
her,
or
precede
her,
and
once
a
bed,
on
which
she
sat
playing
cards,
was
lifted
up
under
her
several
times
to
a
considerable
height.
Robin,
the
servant,
gave
evidence
that
he
was
greatly
plagued
with
all
manner
of
noises
and
movements
of
objects.
John
Wesley,
in
his
account
published
many
years
after
date
in
his
Arminian
Magazine,
attributed
the
affair
of
1716
to
his
father's
broken
vow
of
deserting
his
mother
till
she
recognised
the
Prince
of
Orange
as
king!
He
adds
that
the
mastiff
"used
to
tremble
and
creep
away
before
the
noise
began".
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