Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-12-08

e have 'em too much talked about
S ''Jist so,' says L. jist so. That
e ares what every woman I've talked
+ with says, and l guess, fust and last
A I've talked with twenty,-good, safe
L church-members,- sand they's every
one of 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 keep quite still about
it, and that's jist what they say over
! to Needham and Sherburn. I've
: been all round hushing this ere up,
; and 1 amt found but few people
J that hadn't the particulars one way
J or the other. This 'ere was what 1
says to Lady Lothrop. The fact
was, never did see no report spread
so, nor make sich sort of surchings
of heart as this ere. 1t rally did
beat all, cause eff twas a ghost, why
there was the pint proved, you see.
Cinthy's church-member, and she
see it, and got right up and sarched
the room; but then agin eff twas a
woman, that are was kind of awful;
it give cause, We see, for thinking all
sorts of things. There was Cap'n
Brown, to be sure, he want church
member, but yet he was as honest
and regular man as any going, as
fur as any on us could see. To be
sure, nobody know'd where he come
from, but that want no reason agin
him; this ere might bin a crazy
sister or some poor critter he took |
out of the best of motives, and the
Scriptur says, Charity hopeth all
things But then we see folks will
talk,-that ares the poster of all |
these things,-and they did some on |
'em talk considerable strong about |
the Cap'n; but somehow or other
there didn't nobody come to the pint
o. facing ON him down and saying
square out, 'Cap'n Brown, have you
got woman in your house, or hain't
you, or is it ghost, or what is itY
Folks somehow never does come to
that. Ye see there was the Cap'n
so respectable, a setting up every
Sunday there in his pew, with his
ruffies round his hands, and his red
broadcloth cloak and his cooked hat.
Why, folks hearts sort o. failed 'em
when it come to saying anything
right to him. They thought and
kind O whispered round that the
minister or the deacons oughter do
it; but Lordy massy, ministers 1
spose has feelings like the rest on
us; they don't want to eat all the
hard cheeses that nobody else won't
eat. Anyhow there wasn't nothing
said direct to the Cap'n, and jist for
want O. that all the folks in Oldtown
kept bilin and bilin like kettle
of soap, till it seemed all the time
as if they'd bile over
Some O. the wimmen tried to get
something out O Qiassy Lordy
massy, you might as we'll tried to
get it out an old Tom-turkey, that'll
strut and gobble and quitter and .
drag his wings on the ground and
fly at you, but won't say nothing.
Quassy she screeched her queer sort
O laugh, and she told 'em that they
was making fools o themselves,
and that the Cap'n's matters want
none o. their bisness; and that was
true enough. AS to going into
Quassia's room, or into any O. the
store rooms or closets she kept the
keys of, you might as well have
gone into lions den; she kept all
her places locked up tight, and there
was no getting at nothing in the
Cap'n Brown house, else / believe
some o the wimmen would sent a
sarch warrant.
WELL said l, what came of it?
Didn't anybody ever find out?'
WAL said Sam, it come to an s
end sort O, and didn't come to an |
end. 1t was jist this ere way. You {
see along in October, jist in the ci- t
der-making time, Abel Flint he was |
took down with dysentery and died.
You remember the Flint house; it s
stood on little rise o ground iist T
looking over towards the Brown 7
house. Wal, there was Aunt Sally q
Dickerson and the Widder Bile c
Smith, they set up with the corpse. t
He was laid out in the back cham ]
ber, you see, over the milk room and $
kitchen; but there was cold victuals t
and sich in front chamber, where the 8
watchers sot. Wal, now Aunt Sally
she told me that between three and b
four O'Clock she heard wheels rum I
bling, and she went to the winder {
and it was clear starlight, and she s
see coach come up to the Cap'n ]
Brown house, and she see the Cap'n {
come out bringing a woman all {
wrapped in a cloak, and old Quassy ,
came after with her arms full of t
bundles, and he put her into the 1
kerridge and shet her in and it driv
off; and she see old Quassy stand f
looking over the fence arter it. She I
tried to wake up the widder, but it i
was towards morning, and the wild $
der alters was hard sleeper; so G
there want no witness but her.
Well, then it wasn't ghost said a
/, after all, and it toas woman f
Wal, there it is, you see. Folks
do not know that are yit, because
there it is jist as broad as it is long.
Now look at it. There is Cinthy,
she is good, pious gal; she locks b
her chamber doors, both on EN-, and b
goes to bed, and wakes up in the b
night and there is woman there. b
She jist shets her eyes and the wo- c
man is gone. She gifts up and looks t
and both doors is locked jist as she a
left EN-. That ere woman want flesh v
and blood now, no way,-not such c
flesh and blood as we knows on, but t
then they say Cinthy might have C
dreamed it.
wal, now. look at it tother way. o