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I was glad when I came back, the trees was so big, and the place so dark and lonesome, and 'twas a cloudy day, and I cried a deal, thinkin' of home, while I was walkin' alone there. That evening, the candles bein' alight, I was sittin' in my room, and the door was open into Madam Crowl's chamber, where my aunt was. It was, then, for the first time I heard what I suppose was the ald lady talking.
Wyvern laughed a deal when I told her what happened. But she changed her key when she heard the ald lady's words. "'Say them again, says she. "So I told her. "'Ye little limb! What for did ye say I killed the boy? I'll tickle ye till ye're stiff. "'And did ye say she killed a boy? says she. "'Not I, ma'am, says I.
I pray yow, Sir, think nathing althocht this berare onderstand of it, for he is the special secretair of my lyf; His name is Lard Bower, and vas ald Manderstonis man for deid and lyf, and evin so now for me. And for my awin part, he sall knaw of all that I do in this varld, so lang as ve leif togidder, for I mak him my howsehald man: He is veill vorthy of credit, and I recommend him to yow.
I could not stir, but she passed me straight by, wi' a blast o' cald air, and I sid her, at the wall, in the alcove as my aunt used to call it, which was a recess where the state bed used to stand in ald times wi' a door open wide, and her hands gropin' in at somethin' was there. I never sid that door befoore.
Thus they say, "The next beheading of King Charles I will be in Ald. b. x. 231c/d" or whatever the name of the star may be "on such and such a day of such and such a year, and there will not be another in the lifetime of any man now living," or there will, in such and such a star, as the case may be.
It was his son, the ald lady's grandson, Squire Chevenix Crowl, that owned the estates at the time I came to Applewale. "There was a deal o' talk lang before my aunt's time about it; and 'twas said the step-mother knew more than she was like to let out. And she managed her husband, the ald squire, wi' her white-heft and flatteries.
She pined, and windered, and went off, torflin', torflin', quiet enough, till a day or two before her flittin', and then she took to rabblin', and sometimes skirlin' in the bed, ye'd think a robber had a knife to her throat, and she used to work out o' the bed, and not being strong enough, then, to walk or stand, she'd fall on the flure, wi' her ald wizened hands stretched before her face, and skirlin' still for mercy.
"'Because, says he, 'and don't you for your life tell no one, only watch her and see she's possessed by the devil, and more an half a ghost. Have you got a Bible? "'Yes, sir, says I. For my mother put my little Bible in my box, and I knew it was there: and by the same token, though the print's too small for my ald eyes, I have it in my press to this hour.
And as the boy was never seen more, in course of time the thing died out of fowks' minds. "I'm goin' to tell ye noo about what I sid wi' my own een. "I was not there six months, and it was winter time, when the ald lady took her last sickness.
The original place was about a mile away, and no longer on the shore, and it is distinguished from the prosperous port as Ald Ravenser. Owing, however, to its insignificance in comparison to Ravenserodd, the busy port, it is often merely referred to as Ravenser, spelt with many variations.
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