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beings exist, but that they have both seen and spoken to them. 
We let illustrative examples take the place of description :—Mrs 
G — on going out one afternoon to call upon a neighbour, 
who resided about half a mile distant across the moor, saw her 
friend evidently coming on the same errand. She therefore 
retraced her steps, and entering the house, awaited her friend’s 
arrival. Her expected visitor not making her appearance, Mrs 
G — went to the door to see what had detained her, but 
although she gazed in every direction there was no one to be seen. 
As the afternoon was now far advanced, she decided it would be 
better to defer her visit until the following day. "Walking across 
on the morrow, she remarked, in the course of conversation, “I 
saw you on the way to see me yesterday ; what made you turn 
half-road?” ‘‘Me coming to see you!” exclaimed her friend. 
“T can assure you I wasna that, for I was scarce frae my ain 
fireside the hale day.” -Both were positive, however, and it was 
agreed for the time being to avoid all further reference to the 
matter. A week later Mrs G —’s neighbour died, and ‘her 
corpse was carried to the churchyard over the very track upon 
which her wraith had been seen by Mrs ‘(G—-——— on the after- 
noon of her intended call. My grandfather, while returning one 
night between eleven and twelve o’clock from a visit he had been 
paying his son, was startled to see a figure in white come out of 
the Gap’s Mill loaning, and mount the dyke by the roadside. 
Noiselessly gliding along the top of the fence, it continued to 
keep pace with him until the Pentoot well was reached, when it 
mysteriously disappeared. My grandfather was not superstitious, 
yet this particular encounter he never could altogether explain 
away. It may be mentioned that the Gap’s Mill and Pentoot 
pens referred to in the narrative were both of evil reputation as 
having been the scenes of child murder, and I can remember how 
as a boy “each particular hair stood 0 end” as oceasion took me : 
near the haunted spots. There is often a ludicrous side to these 
ghost stories. Take the following-example :—A successful pedlar 
named Mungo Clerk having departed this life, his neighbours 
agreed that as he appeared to have no near relatives the best 
thing to do with his money was “to ware ’t on himsel’.” Mungo 
accordingly had “a gran’ funeral,” that isto say, “plenty tae-eat 
and mair tae drink,” and so freely was the whisky partaken of 
that by the time the rite of burial had been-performed all were 
