He cried out once, nearly dropped his lamp, and then turned tail and went as if the dell were after him.
I'd told some of the miners what I meant to do, so they were waiting for him, and when he came along they saw how frightened he was.

They had to support him; he was that near to collapse.

As for me, there was so much excitement I had no trouble in getting to the stable unseen, and then back to my ain gate, where I belonged.
Jock would no go back to work that day.
"I'll no work in a haunted seam!" he declared, vehemently.

"It was a ghost nine feet high, and strong like a giant! If I'd no been so brave and kept my head I'd be lying there dead the noo.

I surprised him, ye ken, by putting up a fight--likes he'd never known mortal man to do so much before! Next time, he'd not be surprised, and brave though a man may be, he canna ficht with one so much bigger and stronger than himself." He made a great tale of it before the day was done.