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THE STARTING POINT. Mr. Kline is not sure of his beginnings; perhaps it came to him out of the ether "or whatever it is that niggardly generates ideas. " "If it had any starting point, perhaps it was in a talk I remember once having with Braithwaite. I kicked because the embattled farmers and others of New England never seemed to fire a shot but some ready recorder was instantly on hand to jot it down in a paean of praise; while Pennsylvania, with pretty good history of its own, too, and full of legend and lore, had gone totally unreported by comparison. Maybe I started out to hunt up its legends."
After this pleasant admission, Mr. Kline confesses that "The Caller in the Night" is no rendering of an actual legend. "So far as I know there never was a Screamer Moll, and no skeletons. The thunderstorm probably happened. The rest is all made up."