Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-03-27

Dutchman in particular. He said | .syos
Won cowartly poy,'' and ''got fright at my
own shadow. That there was no such thing
as ghost, and that he would willingly 90
right up TO any thing of the kind that could
be shown him
''You would not have gone up to this"
said, still trembling.
"Pesure l would. Shust 60 back nit
me, aud let me see der place, an III show
ron dere's nottin dere."
refused at frst, but being urged by the
family, and thinking Of Jane Elizabeth Ell
vira Mosier, the coal pit, and of being kick
ed out of the house By the old mau,I re-
luetantly consented.
We started back, the Dutchman gassing
along about his bravery, and about how he
had unraVeled many ghostly mystery and
trembling from the effects of my fright,
but saying nothing. In due time NE reach
ed the cliff
Snow, just around this rock is where /
saw IT, said |, stopping and turning back,
for the path was not broad enough for US
to walk side By side, and he was following
close at my heels.
''0h, go on said be, "it makes noting,
Ish not fraid of ter tife." "
We went on. We turned around the
bek. | looked, and there it was blazing
and flashing just as ] had seen it before.
turEed to the DutchDan, to see what effect
1t produced upon him, when 10, be was not
there, A glance down the path revealed
him streaking it like a comet around the
rock. This frightened me worse than eY-
er, and so set out after him as swift as
my locomotive powers would carry me- Be-
ing rather the swiftest runner of the two,
| passed him just as We reached the mouth
Of the long land which led 10 our house
He was fairly hoeiug it down, and gruntiug
every jump, loud enough to have been
heard hundred yards.
! had not been long in the lead before |
heard kind of thunlping and tasseling
noise just behind nae, aud in the next in
slant the Dutchman cried out:
"Help' murter Oh, mine Got it ash
60. me- Ter tife hash got me murter
murter"
Up to this time had been running fast
er than ever ran before, but when these
sounds reached ny ear, 1 doubled my speed
1t seemed TO me that Death vas right al
my heels, and nothing but the greatest ex-
erti5n on my part could save me. la the
twinkling Of an eye | was iD the house,
where, to my utter astonishmsnt, l found
Nosier, laughing it to split his sides. The
truth at once flashed across my mind Il
was trick, and a rich one at that. In
short time the Dutchman came limping up,
and then the laughing commenced in real
earnest, but you may be certain the Dutch
man and myself took but little part in it.
The phenomenon Of the ghost is easily
explained. Mosier aud some Of the fellows
at the coal pit had scooped cut pumpkin,
cut hideous looking eyes and mouth in the
rind, and then setting two caadles in it, had
fixed it up at the Indian grave. A long
string was attached to it, so that one could
stand off and pull, TO make it move. 1t
was, indeed, frightful looking thing. The
awful scare which the Dutchman got while
coming down the lane, was occasioned by
his having run over COW that was quietly
sleeping in the road. As she jumped up,
her horn accidentally clught in his clothes
and the poor fellow had ne other thought
than that the devil had him for certain.
We got over our scare, but l did not
hear the last Of it as long as | reinained in
that region.