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The great man took up his hat and his fee together. His silence at least had been golden. "Didsta iver see sic a dumb daft boggle?" said Mattha as the doctor disappeared. "It cannot even speak when it's spoken to." The medical ghost never again haunted that particular ghost-walk. Robbie lay four days insensible, and Mrs. Branthwaite was thenceforward his sole physician and nurse.
"It's done me a power of good though," said Robbie shaking his wet hair, and then drying it with a handkerchief which Liza had handed him for the purpose. "I'm a stone for strength," added Robbie, but rising to his feet he slipped and fell. "Then didsta nivver hear that a tum'lan stone gedders na moss," said Mattha. The jest was untimely, and the three walked on in silence.
"Good lorjus deys!" cried Hal o' Nabs. "An whot else didsta see, mon?" "Whoy," replied Ashbead, "t'owd hags had a little figure i' t' midst on 'em, mowded i' cley, representing t' abbut o' Whalley, ey knoad it be't moitre and crosier, an efter each o' t' varment had stickt a pin i' its 'eart, a tall black mon stepped for'ard, an teed a cord rownd its throttle, an hongt it up."
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