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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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"Anybody
see
anything?"
"No,
only
footsteps
are
heard
creeping
up,
before
the
twitches
come
off."
"And
what
do
the
people
do?"
"Nothing!
We
set
a
camera
once
to
photograph
the
spook.
He
did
not
sit."
"It's
rum!"
said
the
Beach-comber.
"But
mind
you,
as
to
spooks,
I
don't
believe
a
word
of
it."
{299}
THE
GHOST
THAT
BIT
The
idiot
Scotch
laird
in
the
story
would
not
let
the
dentist
put
his
fingers
into
his
mouth,
"for
I'm
feared
ye'll
bite
me".
The
following
anecdote
proves
that
a
ghost
may
entertain
a
better
founded
alarm
on
this
score.
A
correspondent
of
Notes
and
Queries
(3rd
Sept.,
1864)
is
responsible
for
the
narrative,
given
"almost
verbatim
from
the
lips
of
the
lady
herself,"
a
person
of
tried
veracity.
"Emma
S---,
one
of
seven
children,
was
sleeping
alone,
with
her
face
towards
the
west,
at
a
large
house
near
C---,
in
the
Staffordshire
moorlands.
As
she
had
given
orders
to
her
maid
to
call
her
at
an
early
hour,
she
was
not
surprised
at
being
awakened
between
three
and
four
on
a
fine
August
morning
in
1840
by
a
sharp
tapping
at
her
door,
when
in
spite
of
a
"thank
you,
I
hear,"
to
the
first
and
second
raps,
with
the
third
came
a
rush
of
wind,
which
caused
the
curtains
to
be
drawn
up
in
the
centre
of
the
bed.
She
became
annoyed,
and
sitting
up
called
out,
"Marie,
what
are
you
about?"
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