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The one thing I ever...I said... H. (Twas) The only thing I ever I did see that I know was real.I...I seen... I see those _two people_. I know 'twas... FE. Could you...could you hear them walking? H. Oh yes,sir! Clothes rushin' just that same...I...I don't know...I...I couldn't (i)magine, (I)...I think that was two sisters that time,_token o' two sisters._I knowed 'em,you know, I think...I knowed 'em. I think that was pretty real,I knowed 'em, They was dressed in white,sir, just so white as the holland (??)...as the...you never... never come from the...from the laundry,their clothes was never starched no brighter, no whiter THAN what it was! The snow never fell from the heavens so white as that was! FE. And they were walking...? H. They was walkin',sir,I knowed their hair, that's why I knowed 'em. FE....But they are dressed as men? H. Dressed...no,dressed in women's clothes.Two...two girls' 'T was FE. Two girls,yeah. H. Yea,_two young women._ I knowed their hair, FE. Where were they living at the (time??)? H. Dora's (??) twin,that was. FE. Were they living or dead then? H. No,they was dead,sir.No! They was livin' then.They died after ,shortly after - two of 'em.Yeah NO, I knowed the two of 'em,sir,just so real as I knows you.I walkED but I never talkED with 'em. FE. They didn't speak to each other? H. No,sir! No. I knowed their,their hair was long,and I know Harry's wife was one of 'em up here,first wife. FE. And why did they walk along wi' you then? H. They (was) walkin' along broadside to me,sir. Three of us would just today...say you [Reverse] _TOKEN_ - Card 2 ...(and)that man was ~ there now, (AW')I was here,walkin' down the road,and when I got abreast o' t_he cemetry,_ they disappeared.That's where they disappeared to. FE. And did you... find H. Disappeared in that _old cemetery_ up there,sir. FE. And the next day,did you find out if they were home at the time? H. Oh they's home,yes,because...Harry's wife died shortly after that,see.Yeah.And nine months from that their sister was dead.He was twin,see. FE. Funny feeling ,isn't it? H. One of 'em had light hair and th'other had dark.That's what the...two of 'em had. Harry's wife had light blonde hair,and 'wear un right there across her waist, and poor alice,ARCH(??)...Charl(es)?? Baker's wife,belonged...and he lived up there (at) Brown's Arm,she had dark hair down to her waist.That what they was.Both of 'em dressed in white.Snow white,sir,never fell from the heavens no whiter than their clothes! FE. About how far did you walk along with them? H. Oh,we walked...oh a nice piece,sir,a nice little bit. I kept a eye on 'em all the time, but never spoke to 'em. FE. Near as I am to you now? H. Near.. THE four... three of us walkin' along broadside! Handy to me as I is to you! Three of us! I was there and two girls,one on each...two girls,linked up,walkin' along,and I wasn't...the only thing that I wasn't linked up wi' them,that's the only seperate us. When I come up out o' the house,come up on the road,sir,I met 'em.And I walked with 'em (till) I got to _the cemetry._ FE. Did you blink (? ) ? H. And when I got to the cemetry I suppose I must...perhaps I looked towards _the cemetry_ but...when I...I done something. I don't know. I suppose I must a (ie have) blinked on looked,but when I looked again they was gone.And I walked on. I went on. And I went [3rd card T_14452] _Token_- card 3 into old Frank HORAN'S (??), and sir if you'd a (ie have) paid me ten million dollars I wouldn't (HAVE) gone home that night! No.No,I tell you if ever Anyone was fearful, I was fearful!Yeah. I'd a (ie have) been there A? this time if it hadn't NO-ONE HAVE WITH ME ! Yeah. WELL now tha(t)...now I went on. I went on till I got to Uncle Frank's,you know, and somehow I wasn't afraid. But after I'd got there,you talk about a feeling! I just...come back to realise,you know,I suppose, who it was.But I...I knowed _the two women_. They died, both of 'em, shortly after (THAT) FE. And they looked then,to you,the same as they were in their natural life?Did you...the same age and everything. H. Two real...just so real,sir,as they was when they doin'...they was on earth,Yes.That's the only thing that ever (I) seen in my life. I know it was real! Now I know they was real and I can't know-none on this earth will never...never convince me,but...(of) course that was the two; that's th'only two that ever I knowed it was.Only way I knowed 'em was by their hair. FE. And then were they burried in that same _cemetry?_ H. One was,yes. Sir One was buried... and the other was buried in Browns Arm.Yeah. Poor Eliza died first see,Yeah.Yes sir.She's up there (in tie]_ceme...cemetery_ now. FE. that's a good many years ago. H. Yeah. Yes,I dont' know how long it is 'Tis thirty odd years ago,sir,since she died. and Henry...Harry married three more since that. He's lost...he's lost three wives and married to the fourth one,so if that's not knockin' with women I don't what it was. FE. I admire him! |
