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 DREAMS AND APPARITIONS. Containing Tibby Hyslop's Dream, and the Sequel.

the year 1827, when on a jaunt through the valleys of Nith and Annan, I learned the following story on the spot where the incidents occurred, and even went up and visited all those connected with it, so that there is no doubt with regard its authenticity.

In a wee cottage called Know-back, on the large farm of Drumlochie, lived Tibby Hyslop, a respectable spinster, about the age of forty I thought when I saw her, but of course, not so old when the first incidents occurred which this singular prophetic tale relates. Tibbie was represented to me as a good and sincere Christian, not in name and profession only, but in word and in deed; and I believe I may add, in heart and in soul. Nevertheless, there was something in her manner and deportment different from other people—a sort of innocent simplicity, bordering on silliness, together with an instebility of thought, that in the eyes of many, approached to abstraction.

But then Tibby could repeat the book of the Evangelist Luke by heart, and many favourite chapters both of the Old and New