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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Some
other
peculiarities
may
be
noted.
All
persons
did
not
always
hear
the
noises.
It
was
three
weeks
before
Mr.
Wesley
heard
anything.
"John
and
Kitty
Maw,
who
lived
over
against
us,
listened
several
nights
in
the
time
of
the
disturbance,
but
could
never
hear
anything."
Again,
"The
first
time
my
mother
ever
heard
any
unusual
noise
at
Epworth
was
long
before
the
disturbance
of
old
Jeffrey
.
.
.
the
door
and
windows
jarred
very
loud,
and
presently
several
distinct
strokes,
three
by
three,
were
struck.
From
that
night
it
never
failed
to
give
notice
in
much
the
same
manner,
against
any
signal
misfortune
or
illness
of
any
belonging
to
the
family,"
writes
Jack.
Once
more,
on
10th
February,
1750,
Emily
(now
Mrs.
Harper)
wrote
to
her
brother
John,
"that
wonderful
thing
called
by
us
Jeffery,
how
certainly
it
calls
on
me
against
any
extraordinary
new
affliction".
This
is
practically
all
the
story
of
Old
Jeffrey.
The
explanations
have
been,
trickery
by
servants
(Priestley),
contagious
hallucinations
(Coleridge),
devilry
(Southey),
and
trickery
by
Hetty
Wesley
(Dr.
Salmon,
of
Trinity
College,
Dublin).
Dr.
Salmon
points
out
that
there
is
no
evidence
from
Hetty;
that
she
was
a
lively,
humorous
girl,
and
he
conceives
that
she
began
to
frighten
the
maids,
and
only
reluctantly
exhibited
before
her
father
against
whom,
however,
Jeffrey
developed
"a
particular
spite".
He
adds
that
certain
circumstances
were
peculiar
to
Hetty,
which,
in
fact,
is
not
the
case.
The
present
editor
has
examined
Dr.
Salmon's
arguments
in
The
Contemporary
Review,
and
shown
reason,
in
the
evidence,
for
acquitting
Hetty
Wesley,
who
was
never
suspected
by
her
family.
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