"CAME HOME TO DIE”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23463, 30 March 1938, Page 4

"CAME HOME TO DIE”

SCOTTISH WOMAN’S PR&MONITION RELATIVE OF CAPTAIN CARGILL A remarkable illustration of an •Iderly Scottish woman’s presentiment of death is related in a history of the family of Captain William Cargill, first Superintendent of the Province of Otago, which was written in 1897 and has been made avail-, able to the Daily Times by a great grand-daughter, Miss A. F. Cut ten, of Dunedin. Among the maternal relatives of Captain Cargill were three sisters, two of whom lived together while the third had apparently taken up her abode in some other part of Scotland. One day she returned to the home of her sisters, one of whom welcomed her with the remark, “ Come away in sister; we are glad to see you.” “ Yes, sister: I have come home to die,” the other replied. “Indeed,” said the sister; well come away, we are glad to have you.” The sister who had come home to die had no appearance of any particular illness, nor did she complain of any, but she took up her abode quietly with the others. One night, on retiring to bed, she called her maid. “Noo, Jennie, ,ma woman,” she addressed her, “I am gawn to dee the night, and mind you’re no to tell my sisters onything aboot it till after they’ve had their breakfast in the morning, as I dinna want to have them disturbed.” She then gave instructions to Jennie for the disposal of her personal belongings, and the servant, who received the directions with grave demeanour, promised to carry them out. Truly enough the old lady passed away quietly in the night, and it was not until after her sisters had finished breakfast in the morning, that the maid informed them of her death. >l/