Litchfield enquirer., 1870-12-01

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 T7--T-7--7 T77T-7 v7 ya.s Some of the women they drewo them selves up putty stiff and proper. Your Aunt Lois was one on arn. -
 sa'' sGhostg say ashe;. aon'tteil mel Per- haps it would be best 1ef t was a ghost, | laays she. did n't think there ought to be TO sich doin's in nobody's house; and your grandma she shot her up and told her she did n't oughter talk so.' ,.,sr.
 Talk howl said I, interrnpting Sam with wonder. '' What did Aunt Lois mean ?a9& .saa4fG1<E s@ffH 9aI
 Why, you see, said Sam, mysterious ly, there allers is folks in every town that's jist like the Sadducees in old times; they won't believe in angel nor sperit. no way you can fix it; and eff things is seen and done in a house, why, they say it's cause there's somebody there; there's some sort of deviltry or trick about it.
 So the story got round that there was a woman kep' private Tn Cap'n Browns rin parts; and it growed and growed till eACAO Woc oO4tS V 3WaJSFO t0lIAu6 OA Vs . Some said they'd seen her settin' at an open winder. Some said that moon Light nights they'd seen her a walkin' out in the back garden klnd O, in and out mong bean poles and squash vines. t'@''
 s' You see it come on spring and summer, and the winders O the Cap'n Brown house stood open, and folks was all watchin' on 'em day and night. Aunt Sally Dickerson told tine minister's wife that she'd seen in plain daylight a woman 8 settinf at the chamber winder atween four and five o'clock in the mornin-jist a settin 8 look in out and doin' nothin,' like any ybody else She was very white and pale, and had black eyes. -egf if t5as .,.5 d. Some said that it was nun the Cap'n had brought away from Roman Catholic i----~~AS.-G -G+>Ai>y~.z<R- s50t her out Q the Inquisition. .....a.,...-t ! Aunt Sally said she thought the minis. ter ought to call and inquire why she didn't come to meetin,' and who she was, and all about her; cause, you see, she said il might be all right enough eff folks only know'd jist how things was, but eff they did n't, why, folks will talk ''' %s
 Well, did the minister do it?' f d
 'What. Parson Lothrop? Wal, no. he didn't. He made call on the Cap'n in q 8 regla way, and asked arter his health and all his family. But the Cap'n he seemed jist jolly and chipper as spring robin, and he gin the minister some O his old Jamaiky; and the minister he come away and said be didn't see uotnin'; and so he didn t. Folks never does see nothin' when they ain't lookin' where t is. Fact is Parson Lothrop want fond O interferin' he was a master hand to slick things over Your grandma she used to mourn about it. cause she said he never gin no pint to the doctrines; but was all of apiece, he kind O. took everything the smooth way. i..,
 But your grandma she believed in the ghost, and so did Lady Lothrop I was up to her house t ether day fxin' door knob. and says she. Sam, your wife told me strange story about the Cap'n Brown house. ''a~ s'
 !" Yes ma'am, she did, says I. r. @
 a"'Well, what do you think of it?' says she. ,eafagt
 < Wal, sometimes I think, and ther ag in don't know says l. There's Gin thy she's a member O the church and E good pious gal, says I, 1a...s..........,
 "'Yes. Sam, says Lady Lothrop, say. she. 'and Sam.' says she, it is jist like something that happened once to my STduuMOtD0fs Wueu Su6 Was llFJA III Uut old Province House in Bostin.' Says she These ere things is the mysteries of Prov idence, and it's jist as well not to have em too much talked about eessa ...s-.s.sa as,
 "'Jist so,' says I,-jist so. That are's what every woman I've talked with says and guess, f1st and last, I've talked with twenty, ,-goed, safe church. members, ,-and they's every one O opinion that this 'ere ought'nt to be talked about. Why, over to the Deacon s t'other night we went it all over as much as two or three hours, and we concluded that the best way was to keer quite still about it, and that's jist what they say over to Needham and Sherburn. I've been all round hushin' this 'ere up, and hain t. found but few people that. hadn'i the particulars one way or another. This ere was what T says to Lady Lothrup. The fact was, never did see no report spread SO. nor make sich sort O. surchings O. heart as this 'ere., It railly did beat all, cause eff t was ghost, where was the pint proved ye see. Cinthy s a church m em ber, and sae see it, and got right up and sarched the room; but then az in eff twas woman, why that are was kind O awful; it give cause, ye see, for thinkin' all sorts O things. There was Gap n Brown, to be sure, he want g church member, but yet he was as honest and regular a man as any going, as fur as any on us could see. To be sure, nobody know'd where he come from, but that wan I no reason ag'in him this ere might been 8 crazy sister or some poor crittur that he took out O the best O motives, and the Scriptur' says, Charity hopeth all things. But then ye see folks will talk, ,--that are the poster of all these things,-and they did some on 'em talk consid able strong about the Cap'h ; but somehow or other there didn t nobody come to the pint O facing on him down and sayin' square out, sCap,n Brown have you got woman in your house, sor hain' 'tyon, or is it ghost, or whati }it?' Folks somehow never does come to that Ye see there was the Oap'n SO respectable, q settin up every Sunday there in his pew, with his rufaes round his hands and his red ibroadcloth cloak and his cooked hat .s Why,9 folks, hearts sort Q failed lem when it come to sayin' anything right to him. They thought and kind O whispered round that the minister or the deacons oughter do it; but sLlordya massg, ministers s'pose has feelin's like the rest on us; they don't want to eat all the hard ehceses that nobody else won't eat. Any, how, there wasn't t nothin said direct to the Cap'n,s and jist for want O that all the folks in. Oldtown kep' a bilin' like kettle O soap, till it seemed as if they'd bile over. l aH.&1E tysasE a.