Very subdued and silent, the little company dispersed. — London Times.
PHANTOM GAVE GOOD ADVICE
Apparition That Appeared to French Shepherd Was Possibly Some Relation to the Leprechaun.
Every Irishman can tell you about the Leprechaun, the little man who dresses in red with a peaked cap, and lives in the ditches. Only one person can see him at a time, and if he does catch sight of him, must never take his eyes off for a single moment. Watching him carefully, he must run and catch him, and if he succeeds in doing so the Leprechaun will ransom himself by leading his captor to a creek of buried gold. At least, so runs the legend.
Some years ago a French shepherd Aveyron lost two sheep, following evening a figure in a black robe and with tonsured head appeared to him, and told him to look for the lost members of his flock in a cave near Altes, adding that he would there find "more than sheep."
The next day the shepherd found the cave mouth exactly as described. Insilfe were his two sheep. Beyond, came upon a chapel carved in the rock and containing chalices, censers, and candle-sticks all made of solid silver.
The following letter found in a missal showed that the place had been used as a place of worship during the Reign of Terror in 1793. The shepherd took the ornaments to his parish priest and was well rewarded for his find.
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