The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-10-10
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THE HAUNTED SnANTY.
FROM THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

As the principal parsonage of this story
is dead, and there is no likelihood that any
of the others will ever see the Atlantic
Monthly" feel free to tell it without res
ervation.
The mercantile house Of which was un.
I'll recently an active member had many
business connections throughout the West
ern States, and | was therefore in the habit
of making an annual journey through them
in the interest of the firm In fact was
glad to escape from the dirt and hubbub of
Cortland Street, and to exchange the smell
of goods and boxes. cellars and cutters. for
that of prairie grass aud even of prairie
mud. Although wearing the immaculate
linen and golden studs of the city Valentine
there still remained good deal of the coun-
try Orson in my blood, and endured many
hard, repulsive, yea, downright vulgar ox-
periences for the sake of run at large and
the healthy exaltation which accompanied
it.
Eight or nine years ago, Gt is, perhaps.as
well not to be very precise, as yet with
dates,) found myself at Peoria, in Illinois,
rather late in the season. Tho business |
had on hand was mostly transacted but il
was still necessary that n should visit
Bloomington and Terra Haute before return
ing to the East. | had come from Wiscon-
sin and Northern Illinois, and, as the great
railroad spider of Chicago had then but
few threads OF his present tremendous mesh,
| had made the greater part of my journey
on horseback. BY the time | reached Peo-
ria the month of November was well ad-
vanced, and the weather had become very
dlsagreeahIe. | was strongly tempted to
sell my morse and take, stage to Bloom
lhgtoii, but the roads were even worse to a
traVelier ON Wheels than to one in the sad
dle, ana the sunny day which followed my
arrlVai nattereu me with the hope that 9TH
erS as lalr might succeed it,
Inc distance to Bloomington was forty
miles, and the roads none of the best yet,
"Ponhyt,,;aT 1 ny ,;ol Ill JoN Van aooreViauqn OF
rnt I"a,,a ,"u na" rWo uays rest oiu
- t,i,. .stI ~ an.'i l'Vi we uSu', uli'iiGr
n,, e., H.. .'iot Sot,'u c"ci
~ tuinI"t - " hi,'c III ,il9 even
rnit a. ~. ''o I,a ni o''i oSus ol oui'' gray
r,;,,d Lod auo,,sl, 100. ,l' u,e 9Nl anu tlS
tiat 49,, ~ "n'r, PlouiIteu
I'll ,I oia,, Nv '.lil. uI9
s+iI LII o, ~ ' , louI'.'eu clI"'u,iS u
Iatta "" W ioa,e'' ain9uEn IiS
a.Il., 81 1917 ol'Siiop cio"h anu ueau' ana
a"'T'oU i; I,oG'.u me me M'tIi an onl'houS SOUND
tn I,,rueJ Jl TO- fnG ltDGi Tl ue Ia'Iie, lear
III, aaS ',I S'T n,"', il't,oi' n ooIoW' reTk hooiS
,wb;o,, roIo,, tind W ,'tauouS I, oacN SOL
tI, mm.I 1 ,eSe;oieu i Jo'.S .all"w rather tlian
e"n'n "iT n.y. n,I PioSleos was SLOW ana 'oi-
oI,,a. Nv SNy uI'9lle more ana more oo-
eo"i cu, tie sun ia'.eu ,oa Shasily moon, then
Iii ~ a. "i'.:o 1'o.ol III lne gray vault ana l.
,'oty ,r';,eu A. III u,Sus.' lnueaa; tnere was
nIat;o,S Ma Gt oc ~ Wp' y. ms coh'cn,-
lpLa.t o1',i! a'' W olI!N' olls'''l's W't'
Ino,t I"'ll-St'iNs, h1it na'S OF Drown grass,
Ti""m ot "eIi " " 'pw woouS III the u'Slahce'
',', "''1 81, u'o .'cloScu' no ett,poSS-
rormj or nnIaraJ ,1 ~ S'h't,fe,' mus l,S
;s u T "t c,i a ,';' c''l 'l'oll
t,,. 0'0' "'''o" '"V SNS ieli l'Ne pew
Altcr rldIhg Tor an hour or two over the
oeSoIatc level, descended through rattling
OAKS 10 tle ped OF aStrcam. and then ascend
ed through rafting OAKS to the prairie bey-
o"d. Here, however | took the wrong road,
and found myself some three miles farther,
at farm house, where 1t terminated. You
KIN go out over the nerarah wander, sad
me farmer, dropping his maui beside rail
ne hod llSt sPut on" there plain trail
rom 9Yke s lhatil brng You onto the road
nor ''ir rom sugar OrlcK' WIN which
hilnWleugC l. piuckeu up heart and rode Oh
w nat WIN the the w!hdlngs ana turnngs
o, OF Ihe various cart-'racks' thc 1am'iy resem-
olahce IN tle groves OF oak and hickory,
ana the heaVy, uniform gray OF the sky, !
presently ioSt my compass-needle,- : that
natura! instinct OF direction, on which had
learned to rely. East west, north, south,
al, were ailke' ana the very doubt paral-
yzed the 1aculty. Inc growing darkness OF
the SKY, the ""e'y moaning OF the wind,
oet0kened night ana storm; bnt pressed
on hap-hazafu' determined, tleast, to reach
one OF the ihcipleht villages on the Bloom
lngton ROAD:
After an hour more, found myself on
tne DRINK Oh ahother winding hollow thread
cd ny hroad, shallow stream. On the op-
pos'tc side' a quarter OF mile above, stood
IouSn Sih'n'y; at me 1901 OF the rise which
- iVu ~ .l0 rJ a. nt'eL a. loLuinG .he stream
NJ iTta el .i.I' t"e lla'i ma! loio"-
1,a Col'i.lGou iGt "aIu III tne same dlrectloh
.I"'nIs .i .i.s lGCie oe'.,eIiehI on tne lett oh
Wv olpoS.tp "taI Slu1 u sie HonoW; lne pralrie
"sIii eseloiieu it oeiote me, oarK ana mar
anu uee1i'u'e VI any syn oi haDiialon; ]
oo.''" oO%l ui'.lI's u'5n inc rall any ION
Sei III nan "il houl, hhc", should nc
sWai'oweu up III gun OF lmpenetrable
uaikless, 'r. anu tlele was eNluehtiy no CHOICE
ie'i il,e ii ouC 10 return 10 the lonely shanty,
anu u 'l,cIe :, seek sne!ter lot Ihe hlght.
80 oc tllwaLVcu III one Plans either ty
VIM or wea'hel' rs always VeHatlous out
niaL4 II; e'in p o"sI '5e pIospecC Oh spending a
,,'snt - oGoi Iisliol corner OF the world
IooSt naS Gpon.jo aoif u,Ss SoHoI a-or at
ioael 0oilSiuei hlJseii-1 IhorouSh maJIer-