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Updated: May 25, 2025
Before him rises the ghost of Miss Mary Blandy, saying, "My Honour, Cra s ruin'd me." The ghost of her mother rising at the side of the platform, and wringing her hands in pain, replies, "Child he's Married!" At Cranstoun's feet is an advertisement of "Scotch Powder to cure the Itch."
Then I thought perhaps I might mollify her if I could cry, but I couldn't pump up a tear; I never can; and at last when I went into my room and saw poor Madeleine, who has cried herself to sleep, evidently, I understood that there was nothing for us but to do as we were told. And now I can hear Tanty fussing about her room still she has been writing, too cra, cra, cra this last hour.
Captain Elisha had stooped to pick up the pipe he had dropped. His fingers touched it, but they did not close. Instead he straightened up in his chair as if suffering from an electric shock. "Mr. Graves," he began; "Mr. Graves, are you cra . No, I asked you that before. But but twenty thousand a a year! For mercy sakes, what's the principal?"
Almost exactly the same trick is told in an old Gaelic story, that of Conall Cra Bhuidhe. A great Giant with only one eye seized upon Conall, who was hunting on the Giant's lands. Conall himself is made to tell the story: "I hear a great clattering coming, and what was there but a great Giant and his dozen of goats with him, and a buck at their head.
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