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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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THE
ARREARS
OF
TEIND
"Mr.
Rutherford,
of
Bowland,
a
gentleman
of
landed
property
in
the
Vale
of
Gala,
was
prosecuted
for
a
very
considerable
sum,
the
accumulated
arrears
of
teind
(or
tithe)
for
which
he
was
said
to
be
indebted
to
a
noble
family,
the
titulars
(lay
impropriators
of
the
tithes).
Mr.
Rutherford
was
strongly
impressed
with
the
belief
that
his
father
had,
by
a
form
of
process
peculiar
to
the
law
of
Scotland,
purchased
these
teinds
from
the
titular,
and,
therefore,
that
the
present
prosecution
was
groundless.
But,
after
an
industrious
search
among
his
father's
papers,
an
investigation
among
the
public
records
and
a
careful
inquiry
among
all
persons
who
had
transacted
law
business
for
his
father,
no
evidence
could
be
recovered
to
support
his
defence.
The
period
was
now
near
at
hand,
when
he
conceived
the
loss
of
his
law-suit
to
be
inevitable;
and
he
had
formed
the
determination
to
ride
to
Edinburgh
next
day
and
make
the
best
bargain
he
could
in
the
way
of
compromise.
He
went
to
bed
with
this
resolution,
and,
with
all
the
circumstances
of
the
case
floating
upon
his
mind,
had
a
dream
to
the
following
purpose.
His
father,
who
had
been
many
years
dead,
appeared
to
him,
he
thought,
and
asked
him
why
he
was
disturbed
in
his
mind.
In
dreams
men
are
not
surprised
at
such
apparitions.
Mr.
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