Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-12-08
M1LERsBURe, HOLMES COUNTY o. THURSDAY, DEC. s. 1870

: Wal, taking the Hip so right tn
Y last thing afore going to bed, sh
q went right off to sleep as sound a
It a nut, and slept on till somewher
/ about morning, when she said some
), thing walked her broad awake in
c minute. Her eyes flew wide ope,
! like a spring, and the storm ha,
y gone down and the moon come out
and there, standing right in tn
moonlight by her bed, was a woman
: jlst as white as a sheet, with blacl
4 hair hanging down to her waist, ant
S the brightest, mournfullest blacl
| eyes you ever see. She stood Their
: looking right at Cinthy, and Cinth,
| thinks that was what walked her up
r cause, you know, eff anybody stands
| and looks steady at folks asleep it il
, apt to wake 'em.
Any way, Cinthy said she felt jis
as eff she was turning to stone. Sht
couldn't move nor speak. She lay {
minute, and then she shut her eyes
and begun to say her prayers; anG
minute after she opened 'em and
it was gone.
Cinthy was a sensible gal, an6
one that alters had her thoughts
about her, and she jist got up and
put shawl round her shoulders and
went first and looked at the doors
and they was both on 'em locked
jist as she left 'em when she went to
bed. Then she looked under the
bed and in the closet, and felt all
round the room; where she couldn't
see she felt her way, and there want
nothin' there.
Wal, next mornin' Cinthy got up
and went home, and she KEEP it to
herself a good while. Finally, one
day when she was workin' to our
house she told Hepsy about it, and
Hepsy she told me-
Well, Sam,' we said, after a pause,
in which we heard only. the rustic of
leaves and the ticking of branches
against each other, what do you
suppose it was ?
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it might, but Cinthy she was sure it
WANT a dream, cause she remem-
tha sta;rs [ str;Iol ~ fonr ~ hi G % sbo hod o
ber eTas o,,on 1oolI;n, @ ot % 4ha wonan. S n,.
and fben on lba onIT , sbat % ,an, @ " n,;n;t
iist +o SOW NOV 1ormo, and onan
I oJ ,ar, ~ sho 80 10y 49, nv ~ '0N
.Wal Cin4br nth @ IA H Uonsr ond
Hensv She ken; Il % nnttr % c1pss @ Sba
didp,f taiI If 70 nobodE ~ ~ o~oont o,o Annt |
SoIIv D;otorson ond AZ VII. d. Dr.
Smi{b ond - ~ oron5na @ p podno, ~
and tho m;n;Sto,.,s Sc and +hor g.
orr ono =, ,on, ,a.no"d - :. -.
KEEP close, cause it would make talk.
Wal. come spring somehow or other
it seemed to a. got all over Oldtown.
l heard ont to the store and nm TO
the tavern, and Jake Marshall he
SAYS to me one dav. What's this ere
about the Cap'n's houseY And the
Widder Loker she saws to me sTher's
ben ghost seen in the Can'n's house.
and heard ont clear over to Need
ham and Sherburn.
Some o the women they drew
themselves up pretty stiff and prop
er. Your Aunt Lois was one on 'em.
''Ghost,' says she; don't tell me!
Perhaps 1t would be best ef t was
ghost, says she. SRe didn't think
there ought to be no slch doln's In
nobody's house; and your grandma
she shet her up, and told her she
didn't oughter talk SO.
alk now says I, lhterraptlng
9a.' Will VIII y, wonuei' "na' oio A'iii'
Luis niet'n'
why, you see, said Sam myste-
rlously, there alters IS folks in ev-
cry town that's jlst like the Sad
ducees in old times; they won't be-
lieve IN angel nor sperlt, no way you
can fix 1t; and ef things is seen and
done IN house, why, they say it's
cause there's some sort o deviltry
or trick about it,
So the story got round that there
was woman KEEP private in Cap'n
Browns house, and that he brought
her from furrin parts; and it growed
and growed, till there was all sorts
o. ways o tellin' ont.
Some said they'd seen her a set
ting at an open winder. Some said
that moonlight nights they'd seen
her a walkin' out in the back garden
kind O. in and out 'mong the beam
poles and SQUASH vines
.yor coo = oono on snr;no ,ud
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go 49, ' - IL Sa,.,;oht 'n.'S " sne y
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four and Eve o,ciocL in tho morn;nn
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ond do;nm ne+h;nn ILL., anr6odr
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some saiu IL was a nun tne zap
nau 4fousnt away from a 6oman
oatnolic convent III SPAN, ana some
saio lie u so' her OUT . Tile inquisi-
tion. ,,
Aunt oaliy salo sne thougnt the
lninlsIer ought lo call anu inquire
WHY sue uluu COIne 10 meeting,