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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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If
the
bocan
had
a
spite
at
Donald,
he
was
still
worse
disposed
towards
his
wife,
the
MacGregor
woman.
On
the
night
on
which
he
last
made
his
presence
felt,
he
went
on
the
roof
of
the
house
and
cried,
"Are
you
asleep,
Donald
Ban?"
"Not
just
now,"
said
Donald.
"Put
out
that
long
grey
tether,
the
MacGregor
wife,"
said
he.
"I
don't
think
I'll
do
that
tonight,"
said
Donald.
"Come
out
yourself,
then,"
said
the
bocan,
"and
leave
your
bonnet."
The
good-wife,
thinking
that
the
bocan
was
outside
and
would
not
hear
her,
whispered
in
Donald's
ear
as
he
was
rising,
"Won't
you
ask
him
when
the
Prince
will
come?"
The
words,
however,
were
hardly
out
of
her
mouth
when
the
bocan
answered
her
with,
"Didn't
you
get
enough
of
him
before,
you
grey
tether?"
Another
account
says
that
at
this
last
visit
of
the
bocan,
he
was
saying
that
various
other
spirits
were
along
with
him.
Donald's
wife
said
to
her
husband:
"I
should
think
that
if
they
were
along
with
him
they
would
speak
to
us";
but
the
bocan
answered,
"They
are
no
more
able
to
speak
than
the
sole
of
your
foot".
He
then
summoned
Donald
outside
as
above.
"I
will
come,"
said
Donald,
"and
thanks
be
to
the
Good
Being
that
you
have
asked
me."
Donald
was
taking
his
dirk
with
him
as
he
went
out,
but
the
bocan
said,
"leave
your
dirk
inside,
Donald,
and
your
knife
as
well".
Donald
then
went
outside,
and
the
bocan
led
him
on
through
rivers
and
a
birch-wood
for
about
three
miles,
till
they
came
to
the
river
Fert.
There
the
bocan
pointed
out
to
Donald
a
hole
in
which
he
had
hidden
some
plough-irons
while
he
was
alive.
Donald
proceeded
to
take
them
out,
and
while
doing
so
the
two
eyes
of
the
bocan
were
causing
him
greater
fear
than
anything
else
he
ever
heard
or
saw.
When
he
had
got
the
irons
out
of
the
hole,
they
went
back
to
Mounessie
together,
and
parted
that
night
at
the
house
of
Donald
Ban.
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