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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
74
THE
OLD
FAMILY
COACH
A
distinguished
and
accomplished
country
gentleman
and
politician,
of
scientific
tastes,
was
riding
in
the
New
Forest,
some
twelve
miles
from
the
place
where
he
was
residing.
In
a
grassy
glade
he
discovered
that
he
did
not
very
clearly
know
his
way
to
a
country
town
which
he
intended
to
visit.
At
this
moment,
on
the
other
side
of
some
bushes
a
carriage
drove
along,
and
then
came
into
clear
view
where
there
was
a
gap
in
the
bushes.
Mr.
Hyndford
saw
it
perfectly
distinctly;
it
was
a
slightly
antiquated
family
carriage,
the
sides
were
in
that
imitation
of
wicker
work
on
green
panel
which
was
once
so
common.
The
coachman
was
a
respectable
family
servant,
he
drove
two
horses:
two
old
ladies
were
in
the
carriage,
one
of
them
wore
a
hat,
the
other
a
bonnet.
They
passed,
and
then
Mr.
Hyndford,
going
through
the
gap
in
the
bushes,
rode
after
them
to
ask
his
way.
There
was
no
carriage
in
sight,
the
avenue
ended
in
a
cul-de-sac
of
tangled
brake,
and
there
were
no
traces
of
wheels
on
the
grass.
Mr.
Hyndford
rode
back
to
his
original
point
of
view,
and
looked
for
any
object
which
could
suggest
the
illusion
of
one
old-fashioned
carriage,
one
coachman,
two
horses
and
two
elderly
ladies,
one
in
a
hat
and
one
in
a
bonnet.
He
looked
in
vain--and
that
is
all!
Nobody
in
his
senses
would
call
this
appearance
a
ghostly
one.
The
name,
however,
would
be
applied
to
the
following
tale
of
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White-out
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Dice
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