ure than Mr. Jones in his white-coloured coat
covered with streams of blood. The following is a sufficient instance.

Mr. Carew being in the town of Southmolton, in Devon, and having been ill
used by a great officer, vulgarly called the bellman, was resolved to
take comical revenge. It was about that time reported and generally
believed, that a gentleman of the town, lately buried, walked by night in
the church-yard; and, as the bellman was obliged by his nightly duty to
go through it just at the hour of one, that well-known accustomed time of
spectres issuing from their graves, Mr. Carew repaired there a little
before the time, and, stripping to his shirt, lay down upon the
gentleman's grave. Soon after, hearing the bellman approach, he raised
himself up with a solemn slowness; which the bellman beholding, by the
glimmering light of the moon through some thick clouds, he was harrowed
up (as Shakspeare expresses it) with fear and wonder, and an universal
palsy seized every limb; but, as nature most commonly dictates flight in
all such cases, he retreated with as much haste as his shaking limbs
would allow; yet, as fear naturally inclines us to look back upon the
object we are flying from, he several times cast his eyes behind him, and
beheld the ghost follow him with a solemn march. This added fresh vigour
to his flight, so that he tumbled over graves and stones, not without
many bruises, and at length dropped his bell, which the ghost seized upon
as trophy, and forbore any farther pursuit. The bellman, however, did
not stop till he reached home, where he obstinately affirmed he had seen
the gentleman's ghost, who had taken away his bell, which greatly alarmed
the whole town; and there were not wanting many who afterwards frequently
heard the ghost ringing the bell in the church-yard.

It was some time before the bellman had the courage to resume his usual
nightly rounds through the church-yard; but after a while, his fear
abating, he ventured upon it again, and met with no interruption. Mr.
Carew happening about a year afterwards to be in Southmolton again, was
afresh insulted by the bellman, which made him resolve to give him a
second meeting in the church-yard; taking therefore the opportunity of a
very dark night, he dressed himself in a black gown, put a great fur cap
upon his head, and at the usual time of the bellman coming, repaired to
the church-yard, holding in his mouth, by the middle, a stick lighted at