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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"About
ten
years
after
his
death,
his
eldest
son
Henry
Keane
had
to
go
to
Greenlaw
on
business,
and
in
the
afternoon
he
prepared
to
return
home.
The
last
person
who
saw
him
as
he
was
leaving
the
town
was
the
blacksmith
of
Spottiswood,
John
Michie.
He
tried
to
persuade
Michie
to
accompany
him
home,
which
he
refused
to
do
as
it
would
take
him
several
miles
out
of
his
way.
Keane
begged
him
most
earnestly
to
go
with
him
as
he
said
he
must
pass
the
Foul
Fords
that
night,
and
he
would
rather
go
through
hell-fire
than
do
so.
Michie
asked
him
why
he
said
he
must
pass
the
Foul
Fords,
as
by
going
a
few
yards
on
either
side
of
them
he
might
avoid
them
entirely.
He
persisted
that
he
must
pass
them
and
Michie
at
last
left
him,
a
good
deal
surprised
that
he
should
talk
of
going
over
the
Foul
Fords
when
every
one
knew
that
he
and
his
whole
family
were
bound,
by
a
promise
to
their
dead
father,
never
to
go
by
the
place.
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