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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"Then
have
they
any
spiritualistic
games,
like
the
Burmans
and
Maories?
I
have
a
lot
of
yarns
about
them."
"They
are
too
jolly
well
frightened
of
bush
spirits
to
invite
them
to
tea,"
said
the
Beach-comber.
"I
knew
a
fellow
who
got
a
bit
of
land
merely
by
whistling
up
and
down
in
it
at
nightfall.
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They
think
spirits
whistle.
No,
I
don't
fancy
they
go
in
for
seances.
But
we
once
had
some,
we
white
men,
in
one
of
the
islands.
Not
the
Oui-ouis"
(native
name
for
the
French),
"real
white
men.
And
that
led
to
Bolter's
row
with
me."
"What
about?"
"Oh,
about
his
young
woman.
I
told
her
the
story;
it
was
thoughtless,
and
yet
I
don't
know
that
I
was
wrong.
After
all,
Bolter
could
not
have
been
a
comfortable
fellow
to
marry."
In
this
opinion
readers
of
the
Beach-comber's
narrative
will
probably
agree,
I
fancy.
"Bad
moral
character?"
"Not
that
I
know
of.
Queer
fish;
kept
queer
company.
Even
if
she
was
ever
so
fond
of
dogs,
I
don't
think
a
girl
would
have
cared
for
Bolter's
kennel.
Not
in
her
bedroom
anyway."
"But
she
could
surely
have
got
him
to
keep
them
outside,
however
doggy
he
was?"
"He
was
not
doggy
a
bit.
I
don't
know
that
Bolter
ever
saw
the
black
dogs
himself.
He
certainly
never
told
me
so.
It
is
that
beastly
Thumbless
Hand,
no
woman
could
have
stood
it,
not
to
mention
the
chance
of
catching
cold
when
it
pulled
the
blankets
off."
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