Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-12-11
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feels! -
And still while Classy prayed her frantic pray.
ers, and poor old Hector told his beads. ana Al.
| &c fremhled and chung to me, the demon laugh.
ter resounded around and around u.s. We were
N such total darkness that 1 had not seen Mrs
Hawkins withdraw herself from the grc-p, nor
| suspected her absence until we heard her firm
CHEEKY voice outside near the dining-reom door
saying,
w hat can any one think of this Come here,
| Hector Come here ehiidren!'
We all went--eNpecting some denouement
mrs Hawkins telegraphed to us to be perfect
y silent, and to step lightly, She turned the an
gle OF the house, and walked up tile blind alley,
between the back of the house and the back of
| the kitchen; when she had got about midway of
the walk, she stopped, and silently pointed 10
the rank weeds and bushes that grew closely
! under the wall of the house.
There what DO you think of that!' she said
| in low Voice
We looked and at first could see nothing, but,
on closer inspection, we perceived very faint
ghmmer, mere thread of red light, low down
among the bushes.
| We looked up at Mrs Hawkins for explana-
| ton
After the candle fell and went out. she said
4 slipped ont, with the intention Of exploring
again, and this time alone, and in darkness I
came up this bind alley, and looking sharply,
L
convinced, that the jewellers, human or ghostly.
are below there IN that old dsused cellar that we
were made to believe was nearly full of water
and required to be drained. Don't be agitated
| children! take it cooly,' concluded Mrs. Haw-
kins, STOPPING down to put aside the weeds and
bushes. -
just at this moment. another decorating roll
| et the ball, and scattering fall OF the pins, and
peal OF hollow laughter, resounds from below
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Ha! hal ia! ha' hal Ho' he! 10! hs! no! 4
dead SHOT ESQ., $3.50
Too late, yonng gentlemenl Your fun is all
over Your game is up! You are discovered,
Come FORTH said Haw kins, who down upon her
knees, pulled away the bushes, turned up the
old broken and mouldy cellar door, and discov-
cred the scene below.
| rudely f:ied up bowling alley occupying
| the further end of the room, and some eight or
ten youths, no longer engaged in rolling balls;
oet on the contrary standing in various attitude
of detected culpability.
Come! come forthp commanded Mrs Haw-
kins.
And they came, climbing up the rotten and
Wondering steps. and the very first who put his
impudent head up through the dooEinto the OPP
| en- air was Will Rackaway!
'Oa! WILL, exclaimed Alice, reproachfully.
Ioa? WIN questioned Mrs. Hawkins, in
scandazed astonishment
No! the ghost Of O'Donnegan,' replied the
youth in seln,lchral voice. $50.
'Reprobate!' exclaimed our grandmother.
Now, indeed was only taking the liberty
Of entertaining my friends in my kind Aunt
Hawkins cellar. Quite right, you know! On
y don't tell father, and II never do so no morer
pleaded viii, with mock humility,
Dismiss your comrades, sir, and come into
Tia. house. / shall send for your father to-lnor-
row morning, said Mrs. Hawkins in a stern voice
There was no need to dismiss the inrudsrs;
they Were climbing up the dilapidated steps as
fast as they could come, and sinking away with
averted heads,trying TO conceal their faces, which
Mrs Hawkins did not insist upon discovering.
When they were all gone, Will followed us into
the house
New them sir, explain your conduct, ordered
Mrs Hawkins
And VIII with an air Of mock humility and
depreciation Oheyed.
The account he gave was briefly this--himself
and several other youths, sons of very strict par
ents, who prescribed nine pins with other games,
had, out OF some old timber and furniture, left of
O'Donnegan's old nine pin alley, had been taken
down aud carried away, fitted mp the oil dis.used
collier for their games. They had played there
recently, every night, with no other intention
than of amusing themselves, and of keeping their
game concealed-with certainly no thought Of
enacting ghostiy drama until to their aston
ishment they gradually learned that those revels
were mistaken for gaostly orgies, and had Civ
en- inc mouse lis hienFiaDio reputation OF Uclnp
haunied-a joke much too good fer human ma
ture, and especially for boys human nature not
to carry ont. Everything favored their conceal
ment. The cellar WAS reputed to be half full of
water, and vas long disused, and every cellar
window except that narrow hidden one that they
had turned into a door, was nailed up. Besides,
the .trost div zion of the cellar was really two
feet deep in water and when there was any
great nsk of discovery, they had means of let
ting il in to overflow tho back division so that
their fixtures were all covered. Thus for months
they had played the double game of nine pins
and of Il ghustly drama
Need | say morel VIII was let OF with q
lengthy lecture, which have reason to believe
did him vast deal of good, as he is now the
staid father Of a family, and pastor Of a church
Mrs. Hawkins was for the next nine days the
wonder ofthe neighborhooa FOR having 40 valian-
tly exercised the ghosts. Aad we settled down
in perfcc. content in the fine old house, to which
we possessed the double right Of rental and of
conquest,