In the second, a shooting party had engaged beaters, but several who had worked such days before declined, because it was rumoured the evening before that the figure of a strange man in dark blue clothes had been seen walking in the coverts. They thought it a spectre portending a death at the shoot. Happily the day passed without casualty.
Dixon also heard of a young man who in 1883 saw a figure pass him on a dark road, and who took its silence as proof it was a ghost.
Comments