The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-08-10
ALL About A GHOST.

ALL ABOUT A 6HOSI.
The average ghost story is uo,
particularly wen calculated to pui a
person in good spirits, but the fol-
lowing, which Is told in Appletons
Journal by Ralph Keller, is pretty
sure 10 make the reader s'aile Aud
on the score of reliability we are
confident II will stand cDmparison
with almost any ghost story at pres
cnt in cir .ulation
THE GREAT SCARE At sHIRRsHIEH.
The eatile-meu Of Brighton have
often 10 wait a half hour tor the
h~orse-ears, which take them out Of
Boston. They waitat What il known
as the Cambridge car-ofice. They
have a mddy, bovine look, as q gen
eral thing but you viii be surest to
know them by a way they have OF
chewing their cnd--a single straw.
with which they pick their teeth at
Intervals. Theirs is a species OF
Yankee dialect cosmopolitanized by
travel ON stock trains, and refined
by currebt slang. II was not so
very long ago that one Of these fell
lows caused me to miss the Cam
bridge car by getting me interested
in a story be was telling to n friend,
who likewise seemed 70 be In the
cattle business. ave had said
my story teller, "a great scare up to
Shirk.hlrc t'other night we seen q
ghost" Then the arover paused
thrust bis broad brimmed iolt bat on
the back Of his head, shifted the
straw from one corner Of his mouth
to the other, stroked his long whis-
kers, and bent his merry bright eyes
inquiringly upon the face of his
companion-just as If they had be-
gun a bargain y over a half.dozeu
steers. This was, Of course, only a
bid for his friend's curiosity,
"Seen u ghost Y asked bis friend.
And thus the preliminary bargain
being struck, the drover shifted the
straw back to the other side Of his
mouth once more, and continued
Yes, stree, q ghost, all In white,
goin about on all tours, ike raging
lion, see'in' who he could dcvour,
with a deuce Of a noise. The hull
Of Shirkshire was reused as one
man, and specially the women. The
tarnal thing appeared to take a par
tieular spite ogin cattle, for il chased
a COW belleripg down the full length
Of the village street. The COW raised
its tail in the moonlight, and run
more'n two mile. Wall, II kicked
up n deuce Of a fuss roun' in them
parts. Did ! ever tell you Of old
Deacon Ranshead Wall, old Dea-
con Ranshead and his wife il about
the meanest folks we've got up Ia
Shirkslire. They've always got
their hoses In everybody clse's bust,
ness, and the all-iiredest, pesky liari
anywhere. Now, It was about theil
house this yere ghost was fust seen
Fact is, Jim ellison and some other
got the hull thing up. Better't
two weeks ago, when the hull village
was sound asleep, jim and The boy
takes the deacon's calf away from
his COW, and goes to Mrs. Deacon
clothes.l line aud gifts one Of the dea
cons shirts and a pair Of drawer
from it. Then they drawed til
shirt over the fore legs and til
drawers over the hind,le of tn
calf, cutting off its tail from sigl
for the time being, tapping the tn
garments over each other, and tyin
them round the calls middle with
piece of surcingle. Then they too
and put the calf quiet-like, and n
hurting him, in the deacon's kitche
Wall, of course, the calf beg
promenading up and down t
kitchen, upsetting the milk-pa
and getting confused with the gri
irons and SIGH. This kinder stir
UP Mrs. Deacon and the deacon, t,
and they was most powerful sea
Mrs Deacon thought the deacon
better 20 down and see what was
the kitchen. The deacon did
move. They both listened awhi
and The pans and gridirons rattl
louder than ever. The deacon, v,
nervons.like, said he didn't caleull
there was anything there, but, If
wife felt anxious about her milkpa
shed better 20 down aud look ar
them. Then came a rumbling q
a clatter that sounded like
slowed started up to visit them !.
got lazy and rolled down stairs az
Mrs. Deacon, a trembling all os
said she s'posed the noise warn't
the house at all; but a shutter'd
loose onto the iront-stoop, and !
guessed the deacon ought togo do