birds, rabbits, or squirrels....  As her ladyship and I did not wish to be troubled at night, we took rooms in the wing, which the late Mr. S——­ is said to have built in order to save his children from the haunting, and which has been but little troubled; and we slept there quite comfortably.  Soon after 6 P.M.  I went to the place near the burn where apparitions have so often appeared, and which was, I think, first indicated by Ouija.  I read aloud the vespers for the dead, but no phenomenon appeared, nor had I any sensation.  About 7.30 I went to a room which I will call A [No. 1] ... and read aloud the first Nocturn of the dirge; there was nothing to be seen or heard, but I felt some physical inconvenience in beginning, like an impediment in speech, and I had a very strong sensation that there were persons listening....[G] Soon after 10 P.M.  I went and read aloud the two next Nocturns in room B [8].  As I finished the second, Mr. MacP——­ and I heard two women speaking merrily outside the door, and I doubt not they were the maids going to bed.  During the night, although we slept well, my servant [who slept in No. 4, next to Mr. MacP——­ in No. 5], like other people in haunted rooms, could not sleep after five, and he tells me one of the maids saw the bust of a woman with short hair, as though sitting at the foot of her bed.

“In the morning I said Lauds in room C [Library].  No phenomena or sensation.  Soon after 5 P.M. said Placebo again in room B [8].  Nothing.  Then visited the haunted burn again for some time.  Nothing.  About 7.30 read the first two Nocturns again in room D [No. 3].  Nothing.  Soon after ten read the third Nocturn in A [1].  Made slips of pronunciation, and felt the presence of others very strongly, and that it was hostile or evil, as though they were kept at arm’s-length; a disagreeable sensation continued until I threw some holy water on my bed before getting into it, when it suddenly disappeared.  Next morning I said Lauds in A [1].  I had no difficulty in utterance; the sense of other presences was not strong, and I had no feeling of hostility [on their part], but rather of their having to put up with a slight nuisance which would soon be over.  These subjective feelings are in no way evidential, nor would I mention them were they not confined to one place out of five, and occurred whenever I went there, at three most varying hours....  My servant, the second night, could not sleep between 4.30 and 6.”

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Miss Freer returned alone to B——­ on April 28th.  The Journal is now resumed.

   April 28th.—­I returned to B——­, arriving at 7 P.M.  Slept in
   No. 8.  Quiet night.