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the time we ride together, and give me some
information about the affairs of the other
world, for no man inclines to lose his time in
conversing with the dead, without hearing or
learning something that’s useful,
Cool. VVTeIl, sir, I will satisfy you as far
as I think it proper and convenient. Let rc>e
know what information you want to know.
Ogil. May 1 then ask you, if you be in a
state of happiness or not ?
Cool. There are a great many things I can
answer, that the living are quite ignorant of;
there are a great many things that, notwith¬
standing the additional knowledge I have
acquired since my death, that 1 cannot an¬
swer; and there are a great many questions
and things that you may start, of which the
last is one, that I will not answer.
Ogil. Then I know how to manage our
conversation ; for whatever I shall enquire of
you 1 see you can easily shift me ; so that I
might profit more by conversing with myself.
Cool. You may try.
Ogil. Well, then, what sort of a body is
that you appear in; and what sort of a horse
is that you ride upon, which appears to be so
full of mettle ?
Cool. You may depend upon it, it is not
the same body that I was witness to your
marriage in, nor in which 1 died, for that is
in the grave rotting; but is such a body that
serves me in a moment, for I can fly as fleet
with it as my soul can do without it; so that
also I can go to Dumfries and return again,
the time we ride together, and give me some
information about the affairs of the other
world, for no man inclines to lose his time in
conversing with the dead, without hearing or
learning something that’s useful,
Cool. VVTeIl, sir, I will satisfy you as far
as I think it proper and convenient. Let rc>e
know what information you want to know.
Ogil. May 1 then ask you, if you be in a
state of happiness or not ?
Cool. There are a great many things I can
answer, that the living are quite ignorant of;
there are a great many things that, notwith¬
standing the additional knowledge I have
acquired since my death, that 1 cannot an¬
swer; and there are a great many questions
and things that you may start, of which the
last is one, that I will not answer.
Ogil. Then I know how to manage our
conversation ; for whatever I shall enquire of
you 1 see you can easily shift me ; so that I
might profit more by conversing with myself.
Cool. You may try.
Ogil. Well, then, what sort of a body is
that you appear in; and what sort of a horse
is that you ride upon, which appears to be so
full of mettle ?
Cool. You may depend upon it, it is not
the same body that I was witness to your
marriage in, nor in which 1 died, for that is
in the grave rotting; but is such a body that
serves me in a moment, for I can fly as fleet
with it as my soul can do without it; so that
also I can go to Dumfries and return again,
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| Description | Being a copy of several conferences and meetings that passed betwixt the Rev Mr Ogilvie, late minister of the Gospel at Innerwick in East Lothian and the ghost of Mr Maxwell, late Laird of Cool. As it was found in Mr. Ogilvie's closet after his death, very soon after these conferences. (Written by his own hand.). |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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