“ Maria gladly hastened to quit the vault, and having reaching the church porch, was running swiftly out of the dismal abode, when the skeleton barred her passage, and said—She has not forgiven me, I know she has not. Return to her once more! Supplicate for me, and for thy own life! for if thou return without having obtained her forgiveness, thou shall forfeit thy life. ”

“ A youth of sixteen, of a weakly constitution and delicate nerves, but in other respects quite healthy, quitted his room in the dusk of the evening, but suddenly returned with a face pale as death and looks betraying the greatest terror, and in a tremulous voice told a fellow student who lived in the same room with him, that he should die at nine o'clock in the morning of the day after the next. ”

“ The peasant who had pretended to disbelieve the different tales of apparitions, and treated them with derision, was more frightened than his companions, and in a trembling voice, offered to give her a ducat if she would instantly carry the frightful skeleton back again to the place from which she had taken it. The courageous Maria took it up, and proceeded with it towards the church-yard. ”

“ Since you pretend to be so very courageous, said one of them, prove it to us, by going this night into the burying ground, and bring with you the skeleton under the church porch. If you do it, continued he, we will allow that you are the most spirited man in ihe whole village; you shall have a real from each of us, as a recompence for your bravery, and from that moment we shall no longer believe in ghosts or apparitions.' The incredulous peasant hesitated for some time ”

“ Meanwhile, young Lilly put some oatmeal into a wooden dish, skimined the pot of the fat, and inixed it for what is called brose or croudy, and when the maid returned, he, with the boy, appeared busily employed in eating the mixture 'Come Peggy,' said the student, 'here is enough left for you; are not you fond of croudy?' She smiled, took up the dish, and reaching a horn spoon, withdrew to the back room. The shepherd's dog followed her, unseen by the boy, and the poor animal, on the croudy being put down by the maid, fell a victim to his voracious appetite ”

“ In 1609 a gentleman residing in Silesia having invited several of his friends to dine with him, the hour of the sumptuous entertainment arrived guests, he entered his apartment in the greatest rage, and began exclaiming---Since nobody will deign to visit me, may the devils participate my fete.'---Saying which, he left his house, and went to church, where the curate was preaching He listened a long time with the greatest attention. ”

“ The skeleton answered with a still more appalling voice, 'I will never release thee from my arms, until thou promise to do what I shall command thee.' 'Tell me what it is, cried the terrified Maria, and I will perform it, be what it may.' 'Thou must go, said the skeleton, in a deep and hollow voice, into the church; thou wilt find a door in the right hand aisle, which leads to a vault ”

“ The Court were surprised, and Could not under stood what the man meant; but the Judge, a man of more penetration, took the hint, and checking some of the Court that offered to speak, and which would have perhaps brought the man back again to himself---"Hold" says the judge, the man sees sees something more than we do, I begin to understand him" and then speaking to the prisoner "why" says he "is he not a legal witness? I believe the Court will allow his evidence to be good, when he comes to speak." ”

“ Anne Stephens, a person at that time well known and respected, for her great dealings with the mercers on Ludgate-hill This person sitting one evening in her house alone, and musing upon business, happened by accident to look behind her, when to her great surprise, she saw, as it were, a dead corpse, as she thought, lying extended upon the floor, just as a dead body should he, excepting that the foot of one leg was fixed on the ground, as it is in bed, when one lies with one knee up ”

“ The Captain had been privately married in Scotland. This however he hoped to get over by a decree in the Supreme Courtof Session. That expectation proved but ill founded; Mr Blandy by no means could assent to the union of his child with a man, however honourable by birth, who was capable of acting contrary to religion and humanity. ”

“ To him we all owe our lives. As to Peggy, according to his intimation, she has put poison into the pot for the purpose of destroying the whole family root and branch!'— Here the girl fell into a fit, from which being with some difficulty recovered, she confessed the whole of her deadly design, and was suffered to withdraw from the family and her native country.
Black and White Devils. ”