Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-03-30
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Seeing nobody but me- he settled down. AN
IN the family were aroused I told nv story III
as few words as possible; Some believed it,
others laughed at me the Dntchman iii fSrficti.
TAR. He satd 'vos von cowardly pow and
i got fright at my own shadow. That there was
no such thing as a ghost, and that he would
wsllilngly 50 right up to any thing of the kind
4 that could he shown him..
on would not have went up to this, said,
still trembling, a
Pesure WOULD Siiust go back init me, nm
let me seesd der place, an Eli show you tIcrOsot-
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refused at first, Tut being iirseJifbv tic
ilmily, and thinking OF Janc Elizabeth Elyira
hiosler, and cUa- pit, dndsOf being kicked ont of
the house by the old man, | reluctantly con.
scented 1880
We started back; the Dutehn,an casing along
about his bravery, and about how he had uh
/ rayeled many a .ghostngystcry, and trembling
irOin the effects OF any fright, but saving moth.
ing. In due time We reached the cliff.
Now Just around this rock is where I saw
! II, ss1d 4, stopping and turning luck, for the
path was not broad enough for US to walk side
by side, and he WAS following close at my heels.
On y 90 on, said he, 1t makes noting. FISH
not afraid of ter tile
| We went on. We turned around the rock.
Hooked, and there it was blazing and flashing
lJust as had seen it before. Ifturned to the
| Dutchman, to sec what effect it produced upon
him, when To-! he was not thereI A glance
down the path revealed him strcaking it like a
comet around the rock. This frightened me
worse than ever, and so | set out after him as
sswiIt as my locomotive powers would carry me.
| Being rather the swiftest runner of the two,
passed lin Just as we reached the mouth of the
long lane which led to our house. Hewas fairly
hoclng 1t down, and grunting, every jump, loud
enough TO have been heard a hundred yard
1 had not been long in the lead before heard
kind of humping and tusseliug noise Just be-
lind INC, and .thc next instant the Dutcsiman
cried out:
Help! murder! Oh, mine gGotl it ish got
mel Ter title hash got me nurterl murter!
Up to this time had been running faster
than ever ran before, but when these sounds
reached my car doubled my speed. II seemed
/ to me that Death was right at my heels and
nothing hut the greatest excrtion on my part
could save me. In tile twinEling of an eye I
was in the house, where, 10 my utter aStOmiSll.
ment, ! found MosieT, laughing tit to split lis
sides. The truth at once flashed across my
MUD. 1t was a trick, and n rich one ut that.
IN a short time the Datchman calne limping pp,
land thcn the laughing commenced in real ear
nest but yott atay be certain the DutclInun and
myself took but little part iii It,
The phenomenon of the ghost is easily eX-
p!aihed Mosier and some OF the fellows ut the
coaE-lit Ind scooPed out apumpkin, cut hidious
lpoling eyes and mouth in the rind, and then
setting two candles in it, had fixed it up at the
Indian graro a long string MAS attached to it,
so that one could stand off and uull, to make it
move. u was, indeed, u trightCull looking thing.
The awful scare which the Dutchlnan got while
looming down the lane, was OccasiOned by his
Having run over a COW that was quietly sleeping
in the road. AS he jumped up, her horn acct
ientally caught III his clothes, and the poor fell
low had no. other thought than that the devil
had Him tar certain
AVe. got oyertour scare, but did not hear the
list e y rs lr'is ms remnineti in that iecion.