Apparitions > Laird of Cool's ghost

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that you wh6 know so many things, should
not know the difference between an absolute
and conditional promise; I did indeed, at the
time vou mention, blame Mr Paton, for I
thought him justly blameable, in hindering
the lad to meet with you, and if I had been
in his place, I would have acted quite the
reverse; but I did never say, that if you
would come to Innervvick and employed me,
that I wotdd go all the way to Dumfries on
such an errand, that i« what never so much
as entered into my thoughts. He answered,
what were your thoughts, I don’t pretend
to know, but I can depend on my information
that these were your words; but I see you
arc in some disorder, l will wait upon 3’ou
when you have more presence of mind.
By this time we were at James Dickson’s
inclosure below the church-yard ; and when
1 was recollecting in my mind, if ever I had
spoken these words he alledged, he broke off
frotn me through the church-yard, with
great violence than ever any man on horse¬
back was capable of, with such a singing and
buzzing noise, as put me in greater disorder
than 1 was in all the time I was with him.
I went to my house, and my wife observed
more than ordinary paleness in my counte¬
nance, and would alledge that something
ailed me. I called for a dram, and told her
I was a little uneasy. After I found myself
a little refreshed, 1 went to my closet to
meditate upon the most astonishing adventure
of my whoie life.