text:  The occurrences certainly were chiefly of that nature that it required a most resolute and unbounded-- an absolute Christianly-simple faith to believe them: and since the majority of Klaus's auditors were not excessively that way disposed the accounts of the boy were held for so much downright swagger; and the poor ghost-seer acquired to the no small vexation of his parent the unenviable nickname of _Mike's Lying Klaus_