Appendix 
duck at Frensham Pond, when he found too late 
that, instead of wild duck, he had been killing 
tame ducks, the property of the landlord of the 
inn, and that he would have to pay dear for his 
sport. 
Tales of moon-rakers should be colle€ted, and 
the history of moon-raking villages should be 
investigated, as an interesting feature in English 
country life. But this is not quite the place for 
discussing that matter. The subject of pro- 
vincial folk-tales should not be left, however, 
without drawing attention to a curious anecdote— 
not quite of the humorous rustic order, yet 
obviously of traditional value. It is the tale of a 
missing will, discovered to the interested parties 
just in the nick of time, by the ghost of somebody 
long dead. ‘The odd thing is the use to which 
this tale has ‘been put. Sir Oliver Lodge (in 
The Survival of Man) gives it, without suspicion, 
as an authentic German occurrence proving 
spirit-life after death. But readers of The Anti- 
guary may recall that Sir Walter Scott had told 
practically the same tale long before, giving it 
only a different setting. 
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