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vi INTRODUCTION.
“ Some time ago, faiJ lie, one Harley
lived there, a whimfical fort of man I am
told, but I was not then in the cure ;
though, if I had a turn for them things I
might know a good deal of his hiftory for
the greateft part of it isftill in my pofflf-
fion.”
“ His hiftory 1” faid I. “ Nay you
may call it what you pleafe, faid the cu¬
rate;, for indeed it is no more a hiftory
than it is a fermom The way I came by
it was this : Some time ago, a grave, od-
difti kind of man, lived at board in a far¬
mer’s houfe in this parifh : The country
people called him the Ghoft ; and he was
known by the flouch in his gait, and the
length of his ftride. I was but little ac¬
quainted with him, for he never frequent¬
ed any of the clubs hereabouts. Yet for
all he ufcd to walk a-nights, he was as
gentle as a lamb at times; for I have feen
him playing a te-to'tum with the chil¬
dren,