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I rode away fro been delayed but a s was yet in my ears, when verily I

did see that which I have never understood As I live, there passed

from the house of that ne'er-do-well next door, which was closed

tightly as if to assure folk that all therein were sound asleep, a

bright light like a torch, but no man carried it, and it crossed the

road and ay over the meadows, and no man whom I saw carried

it, and it waved in the wind like a torch strea back, and I knew

it for a corpse candle And that saht theup the tobacco plants

I rode fast, h s that I understand not, and

that see outside the flesh, have always

rather aroused iven rules of warfare rather than fear I have always argued

that an apparition should attack only his own kind, and hath no

right to leave his own battlefield for ours, e be at a

disadvantage by our lack of understanding as to weapons So if I had

tiotten, if I

could, a sight of the bearer had he been fiend or spook, but I knew