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state of fear may be imagined. On emerging from the darkness 
it was seen, however, that the cause of alarm was their own collie 
dog. TI have only been able to hear of one person who declared 
positively that he had seen this ghost. This man was driving 
home with his horse and cart when, as he declared to the last, he 
saw the white lady at the head of the horse as it passed through 
the darkest part of the wood. His terror was very great ; but it 
may be as well to say that, while his belief in this tale was 
genuine, it is none the less true that he was addicted to the free 
use of “John Barleycorn.” It is not for me to say that on this 
oceasion this habit made the appearance of the ghost a little 
apocryphal. No one seems to know the origin of this lady in 
white. 
The next ghost of which we hear is one which did not haunt 
the place in a visible form, but was only audible. The tenant of 
a farm some little distance from the place where the white lady 
appeared had fallen into difficulties, and, rather than face his 
creditors, committed suicide. The deed was viewed with even 
greater horror than would have been the case at the present 
time, and it was difficult to persuade anyone to stay in the house 
while the remains were in it. Three men living in the neigh- 
bourhood at last consented, and were sitting in the kitchen, 
while they kept their vigil, and talking at times of the dead man 
and his doings, or reviewing the ordinary news of the district. 
While they were thus occupied a footstep was heard in the 
passage, and to their horror it sounded like that of the suicide. 
So struck with fear were they that for a time no one would 
venture from the kitchen, and meanwhile the footstep seemed to 
go to the foot of the stair leading to the rooms above, and to 
return along the passage. At last one of the men, more 
courageous than the rest, said, ‘‘ In the strength o’ God, I'll gaun 
up the hoose,” and mustering up his courage went along the 
passage to the room where the corpse lay. He saw and heard 
nothing on the way, and found the body as it had been left, and 
without any sign of having been disturbed. For years this 
“uncanny ” sound was heard occasionally, to the great alarm of 
those in the house who thought they heard it. One woman, 
whose son told me the tale, was in the house alone, her employers 
and fellow-servants being out when she heard the footstep coming 
along the passage to the foot of the stair and returning. She 
appears to have had less timidity than many, for she not only 
