On being asked whether she had ever heard the story of Sergeant Davies, she at first persisted in denying all knowledge of it.

The ordinary version was then related to her, and she listened quietly until it was finished, when she broke out with:-- "That isn't the way of it at all, for the men _were_ seen, and it was a forbear of my own that saw them.

He had gone out to try to get a stag, and had his gun and a deer-hound with him.

He saw the men on the hill doing something, and thinking they had got a deer, he went towards them.

When he got near them, the hound began to run on in front of him, and at that minute _he saw what it was they had_.