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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER IX
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He followed later, and was the stranger seen by my gillie's father.
Thus the living but absent may haunt a house both noisily and by actual appearance.

The learned even think, for very exquisite reasons, that "Silverton Abbey" {192} is haunted noisily by a "spirit of the living".

Here is a case:-- THE DREAM THAT KNOCKED AT THE DOOR The following is an old but good story.

The Rev.Joseph Wilkins died, an aged man, in 1800.

He left this narrative, often printed; the date of the adventure is 1754, when Mr.Wilkins, aged twenty-three, was a schoolmaster in Devonshire.


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