To Correspondents. – We have received a letter in favour of small farms, which, on account of its contents, we should have been willing to insert, had it not been defective in composition.
We have also received a copy of verses, which, being in a form unfit for the press, we mention chiefly to give ourselves an opportunity of stating that, though the preternatural appearances, to which they relate, have reached our ears, in indistinct reports, we took little pains to enquire into the matter, having no inclination to intermeddle with “Satan’s invisible world,” or to subject ourselves to the ridicule, which attached itself to the investigators of the Cock-Lane Ghost.
We understand that the people in a certain house at Bridge-end, have been teased with the pelting of little missiles from some viewless hand, and that even the persons whom curiosity led to visit them have not escaped without occasional fillips.
But we shall state the particulars in the words of our bard which are worthy of the subject, and perfectly suited to the capacity of those who take an interest in it.
Coal-cinders clatter thro’ the panes, / Besides coal cinders there come stones, / Some bawbees thro’ the window fell, / As het, as if come out o’-hell. / Some ministers did gang to pray, / To try and ca’ the guest away, &c.
Perthshire Courier, 9th February 1815.