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In order to break her of this bad custom, two men agreed to endeavour, if they could, to frighten her out of it. Accordingly, one night, when they knew that she was there, they took a white sheet with them, and coming to the place, one of the men concealed himself to see the event, while the other wrapped himself up in a sheet, and walked backwards and forwards close before the cow-shed in which she was laid. It was sometime before Molly paid any attention to the apparition, but at last she got up, and looking out, exclaimed, 'Ah! ah! a white devil! and by her manner of expressing himself, she thought it was very strange to see a white devil. And soon after, she exclaimed again in surprise, 'A black devil too!'—With that, the man in the sheet, on looking over his shoulder, saw fairly the image of a person all over Mack behind him; the sight of which made him take to his heels. Molly then clapped her hands as fast as she could, crying out at the same time, ' Run, run. black devil, and catch white devil!' and was highly diverted. But this proved a serious adventure to the white devil, as he expired within a few minutes after he had reached his own, house, and from that time poor Molly was left to sleep unmolested in peace.
