The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-01-30
Solving the Ghost Question

SViFiuS oiAO OllOoO QutSblUll
About the year 1S-, business
bad called ma to a remote part o
B. county, Tennessee. and w.
staying at the house OF a Mr.. Ru
bert. The family consisted of Mr.
Rubert and wife, one son and tw
daughters. The cons name wa
Austin; he was about twenty year
of age, and seemed to be very intel
ligent. The girls we're no less intel
ligent than Austin. Adelia, the el
dest, vas about seventeen, and ia.
lia, the youngest WIS about fifteen.
Prettier girls | never saw. | lov
ed them both as soon as had see,
them.
We were sitting by blazing fir
talking and laughing as lively a
II We had been acquainted for years
when a sudden noise, as if som,
Iarge building was falling. interrupt
ed us.
"Ughl ugh! ugh!ll" said one som,
as if frightened ont Of his sensee.
All oi the family rushed to tn,
door except Julia, who eat still anc
remarked:
"lt's Bill Jenkins runnig from tn,
ghost again"
Scarcely had the words escape
from her lips, when in rushed a tall
gawky, awkward, almos. beardlest
fellow, putting and blowing like a
locomotive.
whats the inatter2" said Mr.
Rubert.
"Mstter enough!" said Bill. bis
eyes looking ss large aa the bottom
OF two common sized ieacups. 'On,
5order,' he continued, throwing
himself down upon a chair, 'ou,
yonder, heard a baby cryin, and
then somebody q groanin and a
snuffin; and | tell ye just got away
from thar"
At this, | could not suppress a
laugh.
you needn't lsgh old hoss,' con
tinued he, turning 10 me; you
needn't laugh, for it's no fun, it's
ust go, III swear il.
turned to Austin and said:
Let us accompany him back to
the place where he heard the noise
and sclve the ghost Tor him
Austin was silent.
Viii you gol' | sskad.---
Austin began to stsmner out
something.
Darn me- interrupted Bill, darn
me gentlemen, if you get me back
there Gny more
Then tell NJ where il was, said |.
and ii we can hear it, wen solve
it cure.
Austin don't care much abou
going, ! believe said Aielia
You are not superstIt!ous, are
yonf' | asked him.
No. said he, Il am not supersti
tious, hut sm afraid Of catching
cold, that's all
Il propose, said Julia. who had
been silent until now, that we all
90, Mr.. Marion, Austin, Adeiia and
The moon ia now 1p, aud
it would be pleasant walk for us.
besides we might have soms real
fun
After somo hesitation on A ustin d
part, this proposition WAS accepted.
Bill told us where he had heard the
ghcet bnt would not go with Us
OFF we started. When va came
to the spot. we found that Bill had
knocked dogn shout twenty psnnels
OF tbs fence. We hs gone two or
three hundred yards, talking very
lively, when we entered low dark
place in the road; the timber was
very tail and thick. which csused it
tc be darker than anywhere else. -
When advanced q few PAGES into
this place, our conversation stopped
Scarcely had we ceased tslking
when-
'Boo,woo WOO. ugh!' went some
thing near u.s.
'Whst's that?' said Austin halt
ing.
l advanced, and Julia stepped tc
my side and said
It's Bills ghost sure
Ou-boo-ho,woo-ughI came forth
again.
l could suppress my lenght1r NJ
longer. 1t proved to be nothing
more nor less than Q hog. which wa,
not sleeping comfortably, and wa,
thus complaining.
What is itl' insisted Austin, whc
had not yet found out what it Was.
just then We came to the hog
bed, and the girls ran off, frighten
ed ss badly sc Bill Jenkins.
'Humpb! said Austin; Its hog
III swsars that caused Bill SO mucl
running ..
We turned and went back to tn
house, and had a fine laugh at Bill
about his ghosts, but Bill would no
give up but that his were real ghosts
learned that there were but 10,
persons in this neighborbood wh
were not superstitious.
wss informed that the plsc
whsre Bill had heard the ghost wal
really haIuted.
Among other stories that wsr