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Rh at the turn of the Heights, I encountered a little boy with a sheep, and two lambs before him, he was crying terribly, and I supposed the lambs were skittish, and would not be guided.

What is the matter, my little man?' I asked.

They's Heathcliff, and a woman, yonder, under t' Nab,' he blubbered, 'un' Aw darnut pass 'em.'

"I saw nothing; but neither the sheep nor he would go on, so I bid him take the road lower down.

"He probably raised the phantoms from thinking, as he traversed the moors alone, on the nonsense he had heard his parents and companions repeat—yet still, I don't like being out in the dark, now—and I don't like being left by myself in this grim house—I cannot help it, I shall be glad when they leave it, and shift to the Grange!"