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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"I
was
to
have
slept
again
with
him
next
night
to
look
further
into
the
matter,
but
a
friend
of
his
came
from
---
that
day,
so
I
could
not
renew
the
experiment,
as
I
had
fully
determined
to
do.
By-the-bye,
I
was
troubled
for
months
after
by
the
same
feeling
that
the
clothes
were
being
pulled
off
the
bed.
"And
that's
the
yarn
of
the
Black
Dogs
and
the
Thumbless
Hand."
"I
think,"
said
I,
"that
you
did
no
harm
in
telling
Bolter's
young
woman."
"I
never
thought
of
it
when
I
told
her,
or
of
her
interest
in
the
kennel;
but,
by
George,
she
soon
broke
off
her
engagement."
"Did
you
know
Manning,
the
Pakeha
Maori,
the
fellow
who
wrote
Old
New
Zealand?"
"No,
what
about
him?"
"He
did
not
put
it
in
his
book,
but
he
told
the
same
yarn,
without
the
dogs,
as
having
happened
to
himself.
He
saw
the
whole
arm,
and
the
hand
was
leprous."
"Ugh!"
said
the
Beach-comber.
"Next
morning
he
was
obliged
to
view
the
body
of
an
old
Maori,
who
had
been
murdered
in
his
garden
the
night
before.
That
old
man's
hand
was
the
hand
he
saw.
I
know
a
room
in
an
old
house
in
England
where
plucking
off
the
bed-clothes
goes
on,
every
now
and
then,
and
has
gone
on
as
long
as
the
present
occupants
have
been
there.
But
I
only
heard
lately,
and
they
only
heard
from
me,
that
the
same
thing
used
to
occur,
in
the
same
room
and
no
other,
in
the
last
generation,
when
another
family
lived
there."
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