Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-05
AN EXCITING NIGHT WATCH

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"Rejoice with me-" said my friend,
Tom Chester, who had come into my
sanctum. eyes, rejoice with me; l
have discovered a new sensation"
"Don't believe it," l said, somewhat
grumpily, for L was writing hard, and
did not want to be disturbed. "Solo-
mon said there was nothing new under
the sun.
Right you are, and right Solomon
of course is /; but then, this isn't under
the sun-it's ghost"
Tom knew my weakness for the So
called supernatural, and therefore
brought his ghost well to the front at
first.
"A real, genuine ghost an unmis-
taxable case of a haunted house family
scared out last week !; series of char
women frightened out of their seven
senses, and housemaids sent into blue
fits. Got the address in my pocket, and
leave to sit there any night, or as many
IlSAuo iS l. )icdoo, anu llIcaH w, IL you
go with me.
agreed at once.
took one or two cigars before our az
rangements were complete.
The haunted house stood in suburb
generally regarded as eligible, and which
we may as well call Tottenham as any
thing else, principally for the reason that
Tottenham is, as nearly as possible, at
the opposite point of the compass from
the real locality.
"The fact is, said, 81 candidly con-
fess 1 should not like to sit alone. I own
should be afraid to dos 1t may be
only my own imagination that dread,
but we are profoundly ignorant of the
limit of this powder. No, would not
go alone. Equally open to objection is
a party of two /; for if one collapsed, the
other would be left in a disagreeable
position. A small select party is
best"
GA third member 1 shall certainly
stipulate for, rejoined Tom, "and that
is my dog Brush. If anybody in the
flesh attempts to play us trick, and
Brush pins him, 1 pity that practical
joker. He will devoutly wish himself
ghost, L can answer for that"
Brush was voted of the party of the
mem. con-, and Tom and I finally de-
cided on three human companions, whom
we may as we'll call Brown, Jones and
Robinson as anything else. We selected
them on the ground that they We're, as
far as we knew, unbiased in their views
of ghostly matters.
so all is settled there will be five of
lis. Luck in odd numbers" laughed
Tom, as he left me.
But it won't be odd numbers" an
swered you forget the dog"
"No, don't. l count the quadruped
as well as the bipeds but still l say odd
numbers, for reckon on the ghost
Good night, old fellow"
slept the sleep of innocence, though
recalled next morning scattered frag-
ments of dream in which "Brush, y
still in the flesh, was worrying my late
maiden aunt's black cat, who must, ac-
cording to the ordinary course of events,
IN the metropolis, have been made into
pies many years ago. Hard work during
the rest of the week drove all ghosts out
OF my head so that l was in the most
satisfactorily unspiritual" frame of
mind when I adjourned on the knife
board of city-bound omnibus to the
rendezvous of Saturday.
The dinner came and went and in due
course we did the latter also, having
previously fortified the inner man, on the
homeopathic principle similia simili-
bus, with a modicum of spirit.
Keep the spirits up