Apparitions > Laird of Cool's ghost

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before you can ride twice the length of your
horse, nay, if 1 have a mind to go to London,
or Jerusalem, or to the moon, if you please,
1 can perform all these journeys equally soon,
for it costs me nothing but a thought or wish;
for this body is as fleet as your thought, for
in the moment of time you can turn your
thoughts on Rome, I can go there in person;
and as for my horse, he is much like myself
for he is Andrew Johnston, my tenant, who
died forty eight hours before me.
Ogjl. So it seems when Andrew Johnston
inclines to ride, you must serve him in the
quality of an horse, as he does you now.
Cool. You are mistaken.
Ogil. I thought that all distinctions be¬
tween mistresses and maids, lairds and ten¬
ants, had been done away at death.
Cool. True it is, but you do not take up
the matter.
Ogil. This is one of the questions you
won’t answer.
Cool. You are mistaken, for that question
I can answer and after you may understand it.
Ogil. Well, then, Cool, have you never
yet appeared before God, nor received any
sentence from him as a Judge.
Cool. Never yet.
Ogil. I know you was a scholar Cool, and
’tis generally believed that there is a private
judgment, besides the general at the great
day: the former immediately after death,—
Upon this he interrupted me, arguing,