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 Mr Paton, for I thought him juſtly blameable hindering the lad to meet with you; and if I been in his place, I would have acted quite  reverſe; but I did never ſay that if you w come to Innerwick and employ me, that I w go all the way to Dumfries on ſuch an  that is what never ſo much as entered into  thoughts. He anſwered, what were your I don't pretend to know, but I can depend on information, that theſe were your words;  ſee you are in ſome diſorder, I will wait  you when you have more preſence of mind.

By this time we were at James Dickſon's cloſure; below the church-yard, and when I recollecting in my mind, if ever I had ſpoke  words, I alledged he broke from me through  church-yard with greater violence than ever  man on horſe-back was capable of, with ſuch ſinging and buzzing noiſe, as put me in  diſorder than I was all the time I was with  I came to my houſe, and my wife obſerved  than ordinary paleneſs in my countenance. would alledge that ſome thing ailed me; I c for a dram, and told her I was a little. After I found myſelf a little refreſhed, I my cloſet to meditate upon this the moſt  adventure of my whole life.

Upon the fifth of March, 1724, being at H head baptizing the ſhepherd's child, I came ſun-ſetting, or a little after, and near W White's march, the laird of Cool came up  me as formerly; and after his firſt  bade me not be afraid. I told him, I was the leaſt afraid, in the name of God, and