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We had a pleasant row about the lake, which commanded some pretty scenery. The most interesting circumstance connected with it, however, according to Scott, was, that it was haunted by a bogle in the shape of a water bull, which lived in the deep parts, and now and then came forth upon dry land. This story had been current in the viiSinity from time immemorial. There was a man living who declared he had seen the bull, and he was believed by many of his simple neigh- bours. *^ I don't choose to ...contradict the tale," said Scott ; " for I am willing to have my lake stocked with any fish, flesh, or fowl, that my neighbours think proper to put into it ; and these old wives* fables are a kind of property in Scotland, that belong to the estates and go with the soil.'* F 3 102 ABBOTSFORD. ^* Our streams and lodis are Bice the rivers and pools in Germany^ that have all their ttftmer rdxe^ or water witches ; and I hare a faney for those kinds of amphibious bogles and hobgoblins/* Scott went on, after we had landed, to make many remarks, mingled wi^ pictur- esque anecdotes, concerning the fabulous be- ings with which the Scotch are apt to people the wild streams and lochs that occur in the solemn and lonely scenes of their nionntains, and to compare them with similar supersti- tions among the northern nations of Europe ; but Scotland, he said, was above all other countries for this wild and weird progeny of the fancy, from the nature of the scenery^ the misty magnificence and vagueness of the climate *; the wild and!
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