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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. Well, Sir, I will ſatisfy you as far as I think it proper and convenient. Let me know what information you want to know.

Ogil. May I 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, notwithſtanding the additional knowledge I have acquired ſince my death, that I cannot anſwer; 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 I 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 upon, which appears to be ſo full of metal?

Cool. You may depend upon it, it is not the ſame body that I was witneſs to your marriage in, nor in which I 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