Apparitions > Laird of Cool's ghost

10
the one was immediately after death carried
up by angels into Abraham’s bosom, and the
other thurst down immediately to hell.
Coon. Excuse me, sir, that does not con¬
tradict one word that I have said, but you
seem not to understand the parable, whose
only end is to illustrate the truth, that a man
may be very happy and flourishing in this
world, ai d most wretched and miserable in
the next; and that a man may be miserable
in this world, and more happy and glorious
in the next.
Ogil. Being so, Cool, I shall yield that
point to you and pass to another, which has
afforded me much speculation since our last
encounter; and that is, How ymu came to
know that I talked after the manner that I
did concerning Mr Baton, on the first Sab¬
bath of February last. Was you present
with me, but invisible? He answered very
haughtily, No, sir, 1 was not present myself.
I answered, I would not have you angry,
Cool ; I proposed this question for my own
satisfaction, but if you don’t think proper to
answer, let it pass. After he had paused,
with his eyes on the ground, for three or four
minutes of time at most, with some haste and
seeming cheerfulness, says,
Cool, Well, sir, 1 will satisfy you in that
point. You must know' that there are sent
from hea/en, angels to guard and comfort
and to do other special good services to good
people, and even the spirits of good men