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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"Next
day
I
met
one
of
the
niggers
who
was
sent
to
lend
him
a
hand,
and
asked
results.
"'Master,'
said
the
nigger,
'Bolter
is
a
devil!
He
sees
at
night.
When
the
sheep
ran
away
to
right
or
left
in
the
dark,
he
told
us
where
to
follow.'"
"He
heard
them,
I
suppose,"
said
I.
"Maybe,
but
you
must
be
sharp
to
have
sharper
senses
than
these
niggers.
Anyhow,
that
was
not
Bolter's
account
of
it.
When
I
saw
him
and
spoke
to
him
he
said
simply,
'Yes,
that
when
excited
or
interested
to
seek
or
find
anything
in
obscurity
the
object
became
covered
with
a
dim
glow
of
light,
which
rendered
it
visible'.
'But
things
in
a
pocket.'
'That
also,'
said
he.
'Curious
isn't
it?
Probably
the
Rontgen
rays
are
implicated
therein,
eh?'"
"Did
you
ever
read
Dr.
Gregory's
Letters
on
Animal
Magnetism?"
"The
cove
that
invented
Gregory's
Mixture?"
"Yes."
"Beast
he
must
have
been.
No,
I
never
read
him."
"He
says
that
Major
Buckley's
hypnotised
subjects
saw
hidden
objects
in
a
blue
light--mottoes
inside
a
nut,
for
example."
"Rontgen
rays,
for
a
fiver!
But
Bolter
said
nothing
about
seeing
blue
light.
Well,
after
three
or
four
seances
Bolter
used
to
be
very
nervous
and
unwilling
to
sleep
alone,
so
I
once
went
with
him
to
his
one-roomed
hut.
We
turned
into
the
same
bed.
I
was
awakened
later
by
a
noise
and
movement
in
the
room.
Found
the
door
open;
the
full
moon
streaming
in,
making
light
like
day,
and
the
place
full
of
great
big
black
dogs--well,
anyhow
there
were
four
or
five!
They
were
romping
about,
seemingly
playing.
One
jumped
on
the
bed,
another
rubbed
his
muzzle
on
mine!
(the
bed
was
low,
and
I
slept
outside).
Now
I
never
had
anything
but
love
for
dogs
of
any
kind,
and
as--n'est-
ce
pas?--love
casts
out
fear,
I
simply
got
up,
turned
them
all
out,
shut
the
door,
and
turned
in
again
myself.
Of
course
my
idea
was
that
they
were
flesh
and
blood,
and
I
allude
to
physical
fear.
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