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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Things
were
worse
during
the
night
and
they
could
get
no
sleep
for
the
stones
and
clods
that
came
flying
about
the
house.
"The
bocan
was
throwing
things
out
of
the
walls,
and
they
would
hear
them
rattling
at
the
head
of
Donald's
bed."
The
minister
came
(Mr.
John
Mor
MacDougall
was
his
name)
and
slept
a
night
or
two
in
the
house,
but
the
bocan
kept
away
so
long
as
he
was
there.
Another
visitor,
Angus
MacAlister
Ban,
whose
grandson
told
the
tale,
had
more
experience
of
the
bocan's
reality.
"Something
seized
his
two
big
toes,
and
he
could
not
get
free
any
more
than
if
he
had
been
caught
by
the
smith's
tongs.
It
was
the
bocan,
but
he
did
nothing
more
to
him."
Some
of
the
clergy,
too,
as
well
as
laymen
of
every
rank,
were
witnesses
to
the
pranks
which
the
spirit
carried
on,
but
not
even
Donald
himself
ever
saw
him
in
any
shape
whatever.
So
famous
did
the
affair
become
that
Donald
was
nearly
ruined
by
entertaining
all
the
curious
strangers
who
came
to
see
the
facts
for
themselves.
In
the
end
Donald
resolved
to
change
his
abode,
to
see
whether
he
could
in
that
way
escape
from
the
visitations.
He
took
all
his
possessions
with
him
except
a
harrow,
which
was
left
beside
the
wall
of
the
house,
but
before
the
party
had
gone
far
on
the
road
the
harrow
was
seen
coming
after
them.
"Stop,
stop,"
said
Donald;
"if
the
harrow
is
coming
after
us,
we
may
just
as
well
go
back
again."
The
mystery
of
the
harrow
is
not
explained,
but
Donald
did
return
to
his
home,
and
made
no
further
attempt
to
escape
from
his
troubles
in
this
way.
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