temperanceby recitingfrom the "Gentle Shepherd a couplet
which he
RIGHT HAPPILY transferred from the vice of avarice to that of ebriety:
He that has just eneugh may soundly sleep
The owercome only
fashes folk to keep.
In the course of the evening the Black Dwarf had not been forgotten
and the old shepherd
Bauldie
told so many stories of him
that they
excited a good deal of interest. It also appeared
though not till the third
punch-bowl was emptied
that much of the farmer's scepticism on the
subject was affected
as evincing a liberality of thinking
and a freedom
from ancient prejudices
becoming a man who paid three hundred pounds
a-year of rent
while
in fact
he had a lurking belief in the traditions of his
forefathers. After my usual manner
I made farther enquiries of other
persons connected with the wild and pastoral district in which the scene of
the following narrative is placed
and I was fortunate enough to recover
many links of the story
not generally known
and which account
at least
in some degree
for the circumstances of exaggerated marvel with which
superstitio
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