I don't know that Bolter ever saw the black dogs himself.

He certainly never told me so.

It is that beastly Thumbless Hand, no woman could have stood it, not to mention the chance of catching cold when it pulled the blankets off." "What on earth are you talking about?
I can understand a man attended by black dogs that nobody sees but himself.

The Catholics tell it of John Knox, and of another Reformer, a fellow called Smeaton.
Moreover, it is common in delirium tremens.

But you say Bolter didn't see the dogs ?" "No, not so far as he told me, but I did, and other fellows, when with Bolter.