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"What d'ye think o' that?" said Tom Scales, the old hostler of the George, looking pale, with a stern, faint smile on his lips, as he and Dick Linklin sauntered out of the coach-house together. "The deaul will hev his ain noo," answered Dick, in his friend's ear.
"'Twould be a fine thing, truly, to send abroad that the house was haunted by the deaul himsel'! Why, 'twould be the ruin o' the George. You're sure ye locked the door on the corpse?" "Aye, sir sartain." "Come wi' me, Tom we'll gi' a last look round the yard." So, side by side, with many a jealous look right and left, and over their shoulders, they went in silence.
See whar the edge o' t' bell took him, and smashed his ain, the self-same lids. By ma sang, I wonder the deaul did na carry awa' his corpse i' the night, as he did wi' Tam Lunder's at Mooltern Mill." "Hout, man, who ever sid t' deaul inside o' a church?" "The corpse is ill-faur'd enew to scare Satan himsel', for that matter; though it's true what you say.
"It was full moon last night," said the old woman. "Sa bright 'twould blind ye to look at it," said the girl. "Never an ill sight but the deaul finds a light," quoth the old woman. "There's a rinnin brook thar you were at this side, and they at that; did they try to mak ye cross over?" "Agoy! didn't they? Nowt but civility and kindness, though. But ye mun let me tell it my own way.
He's one of them freytens a boo or a dobbies off Dardale Moss, that's always astir wi' the like after nightfall; unless Lord save us! he be the deaul himsel." "Whar is he noo?" asked the landlord, who was growing uncomfortable. "He spang'd up the back stair to his room.
It was not till after he had swallowed a dram of brandy that he found his voice, and said: "We've the deaul himsel' in t' house! "Happen he'll tak him in hand wi' holy writ, and send him elsewhidder deftly. Lord atween us and harm! I'm a sinfu' man. I tell ye, Mr. Turnbull, I dar' n't stop in t' George to-night under the same roof wi' him."
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