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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 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 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,