Note 1 — SMALLER GHOST AND TREASURE STORIES AND FAMILY AND LOCAL TRADITIONS.

But the belief in ghosts, though it exists, as we have seen by the above specimens, is by no means generally diffused. ‘No!1 I don’t believe such things,’ is the general reply I have received when inquiring for them. I could not, indeed, help being annoyed with the strongmindedness of an old woman one day, who asserted her contempt for the idea so persistently that she quite ‘shut up’ two others who were inclined to be communicative of their experiences.