Ghosts

Took the dogs out for a good run about at Crinan beach then up to Kilmore Ob the deserted village. Sure enough off they dashed to the well to gaze into its clear waters then Abbie has her customery paddle in it.  A brief shake and a mad crazy run around then Abbie stops dead and stands stock still like she is watching or tracking something! I listen but only hear my own rapid heartbeat. By now all three dogs are standing alert just staring and listening probably to the ghosts of past lives. Sometimes I hear children's voices but today I heard just the birds and the snow melting from the walls of houses long since cleared by greedy landlords eager to replace people who once paid their rent in kind but now not able to pay the money the landlords are demanding so its off with them all, roofs set alight, old women physically removed and hearths thrown out. Fires & lives extinguished  to be replaced by the white reward ....sheep!