PETER CRAIG . MY MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE The editor says we must all write up our most exciting adventure for Our Magazine . My most exciting adventure happened a year ago last November . I was nearly frightened to death . Dan says he would n't of been scared and Felicity says she would of known what it was but it 's easy to talk . It happened the night I went down to see Kitty Marr . I thought when I went that Aunt Olivia was visiting there and I could come home with her . But she was n't there and I had to come home alone . Kitty came a piece of the way but she would n't come any further than Uncle James Frewen 's gate . She said it was because it was so windy she was afraid she would get the tooth-ache and not because she was frightened of the ghost of the dog that haunted the bridge in Uncle James ' hollow . I did wish she had n't said anything about the dog because I might n't of thought about it if she had n't . I had to go on alone thinking of it . I 'd heard the story often but I 'd never believed in it . They said the dog used to appear at one end of the bridge and walk across it with people and vanish when he got to the other end . He never tried to bite anyone but one would n't want to meet the ghost of a dog even if one did n't believe in him . I knew there was no such thing as ghosts and I kept saying a paraphrase over to myself and the Golden Text of the next Sunday School lesson but oh , how my heart beat when I got near the hollow ! It was so dark . You could just see things dim-like but you could n't see what they were . When I got to the bridge I walked along sideways with my back to the railing so I could n't think the dog was behind me . And then just in the middle of the bridge I met something .
It was right before me and it was big and black , just about the size XXXXX a Newfoundland dog , and I thought I could see a white nose .
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