Posted with permission of the transcriber, Petra Michinson. Geo. The Times, Wednesday, Nov 28, 1821; pg. 3; Issue 11415; col F GHOST STORY. - A young man, who is an apprentice to a respectable dyer in Carlisle, and who has hitherto manifested a strength of mind which treated all tales of disembodied spirits and "things unnatural" with ridicule, met with a circumstance last Sunday night which excited in his breast excessive terror. He was walking near the Deanery, and in the direction of the West Walls of the city, about eight o'clock; darkness was his only companion, and the winds that howled fearfully above him the only sounds that were heard, save the echo of his own feet. Suddenly, a being, whose footsteps were imperceptible, and whose dimly-seen form appeared to him like nothing either in the "earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth," rushed upon him with a hollow tintinabular sound. With the speed of Mercury, the unfortunate dyer fled, but his strange and apparently unearthly opponent followed him with the rapidity of lightning; up a lane and down Blackfriars-street the youth rushed - still, still the light-hoofed being was at his heels. At last, when arrived at the post-office, finding himself run down, rendered desperate as to his fate, and cheered by the light which the place afforded, he turned manfully round to combat his unknown and wonderful enemy - when lo! nothing was visible save a beautiful tame fawn, with a belt round its neck, which most familiarly approached him, apparently begging for something to eat. This adventure might furnish the groundwork of another poem by our inimitable WORDSWORTH, to serve as an Appendix to the White Doe of Rylstone. - Carlisle Journal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Petra