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Identifier: blackmorecountry00snelrich (find matches)
Title: The Blackmore country
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Snell, F. J. (Frederick John), 1862-
Subjects: Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900 Devon (England)
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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borderof the present highway to Dulverton, and thererelease him. Particular instructions were sfivenhim on no account to hurt or ill-use the animal,but these he seems to have disobeyed. Theresult was a sudden flash of lightning, followedimmediately by a loud clap of thunder, in themidst of which the dog disappeared. Onreturning to the house the terrified emissaryreported the occurrence, but the opinion wasexpressed that the spirit had been effectuallylaid. The country-side, however, was unwilling toresign its ghost, and, amongst other yarns,the followinor has been told. There is a stonestaircase at Combe, and one step was alwayscoming out. If it was put back one day, it wasfound dislodged the next; and this was believedto be Major Sydenhams work. At length thetwo Blackmores, father and son, were sent for.They were masons of Exebridge, and skilled menat their trade, of which they were proud. Theythought they had secured the step in its placefirmly. Damme, Major Sydenham, push it out if
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WHERE HUCKABACK THROVE 97 you can, exclaimed one of them. No soonersaid than done. I now come to what may be either the basisor a variant of the main tradition, unless, as maywell be the case, it is an entirely independentnarrative — namely, a circumstantial relationquoted in the Treatise of the Soul of Man, whichedifying composition was published in 1685. Itis, word for word, as follows :— Much to the same purpose is that so famousand well-attested story of the apparition of MajorGeorge Sydenham to Captain William Dyke,both of Somersetshire, attested by the worthyand learned Dr Thomas Dyke, a near kinsmanof the captains, and by Mr Douch, to whomboth the major and captain were intimatelyknown. The sum is this:—The major andcaptain had many disputes about the Being ofa God and the immortailty of the Soul, on whichpoints they could never be resolved, though theymuch sought and desired it, and therefore it wasat last fully agreed betwixt them, that he whodied first should on the th

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