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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER X
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Send me some news for we are excluded from the sight or hearing of any versal thing, except Jeffery." The last mention of the affair, at this time, is in a letter from Emily, of 1st April, to a Mr.Berry.
"Tell my brother the sprite was with us last night, and heard by many of our family." There are no other contemporary letters preserved, but we may note Mrs.Wesley's opinion (25th January) that it was "beyond the power of any human being to make such strange and various noises".
The next evidence is ten years after date, the statements taken down by Jack Wesley in 1726 (1720 ?).

Mrs.Wesley adds to her former account that she "earnestly desired it might not disturb her" (at her devotions) "between five and six in the evening," and it did not rout in her room at that time.

Emily added that a screen was knocked at on each side as she went round to the other.


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