THE LAMBENT LIGHT AND THE CORPSE.
My friend found his common sense equally unavailing in another ' case. A woman culled at the manse one night and asked him to come to the door. p "Do you see that V" she asked, pointing to a rock above the sea, near the house. My friend saw a lambent light coming and agoing over the rock. "It is phosphorescence from decaying .seaware," lie said, in the mad prrkie of intellectuality. "It is not that; a corpse will be laid there to-morrow," replied the woman, and, sure enough, a corpse was laid in the shelter of the rock, whence, in a howling day of wind, it was shipped for the burial Isle of St. Muu, an isle where lights of unknown cause are certainly seen by people neither Celtic nor superstitious. '"But was there seaware under the rock?" I asked. " No, there whs none," said my friend, who had satisfied himself on that head.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11377, 21 March 1899, Page 3
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