[The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang]@TWC D-Link bookThe Book of Dreams and Ghosts CHAPTER IV 10/30
But occasionally things are carried to a great pitch, as when a ghost drives off in a ghostly dogcart, with a ghostly horse, whip and harness.
Of this complicated kind we give two examples; the first reckons as a "subjective," the second as a veracious hallucination. THE OLD FAMILY COACH A distinguished and accomplished country gentleman and politician, of scientific tastes, was riding in the New Forest, some twelve miles from the place where he was residing.
In a grassy glade he discovered that he did not very clearly know his way to a country town which he intended to visit.
At this moment, on the other side of some bushes a carriage drove along, and then came into clear view where there was a gap in the bushes.
Mr.Hyndford saw it perfectly distinctly; it was a slightly antiquated family carriage, the sides were in that imitation of wicker work on green panel which was once so common.
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