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the wizard's name was on her lips, and the dream 

 came back to her with so much vividness and 

 force that she could not shake it off. At last 

 she hired a trap and drove all the way from 

 home to , and, after putting up her horse, 

 started to walk to a moor, some three miles off, 

 to consult the aforesaid Jimmy Thomas. She 

 had not gone more than half the distance when 

 she saw a long-haired man coming towards her. 

 Thinking it might be the wizard himself, she 

 looked inquiringly at him as he seemed about 

 to pass. Instead of passing he came to her and 

 said, ' I be come to meet 'ee ; you be Cappen 



H 's wife. I knawed you'd be coming, and 



I've zaved 'ee a trudge. It's about a chield thee 

 wants me.' 



" The captain's wife, of strong will enough, had 

 to confess afterwards that she was as a lump of 

 clay in the presence of this man and his weird 

 knowledge of what none could have known but 

 herself. What she gave to the wizard she never 

 would tell, but he gave her from his pocket a box 

 of ointment and a bottle of coloured liquid and 

 then advice as to their use. 



" She further relates that when she was on the 

 point of asking him if the patient would ever be 

 well again, but had uttered no word, he said, ' You 

 be a good woman, you be, and I'll tell 'ee what I 

 knaw. The chield shall walk again ; of that I'm 

 sartin zure, and I knaw the day ; and I'll tell 'ec 



