The Portland daily press., 1874-07-28
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A Green Ghost.

Mrs. Eliza Green, aged 30 and "hayiDg
fair English education" resides in Spring
field, KY. She is in most unsatisfactory
and undecided condition, for she is a widow
and she is not widow. Mr.. Green, 1t Is
true, is no more. He appeared, at least, TO
die on the 18th of March last; he was prop
ery mourned for and his remains were prop
erly inferred with the usual religious cere-
monies, while Mrs. Green and six little
Greens together bewailed their bereavement.
Under these circumstances, unless MIR.
Green could come back TO stay permanently,
it is difficult to see why he should come back
at all. If he could only return simply 10
scare Mrs. Green and the small Greens out
of their senses, why didn't he stay wherever
he happened to be2 We do not like to speak
i'll of the dead, but we must designate the
course pursued by Green as truly reprehen-
sible. 1t is generally in the middle oil lhe
nioht that he revsits his old residence, anu
then he wakes up Mrs. Green by groanlng
profoun lily, and he frightens all the pretty
halfdozen of children-proJab into hts-Dy
breathing heavily and moaning outrageous
w. Occssionally he goes into the cellar and
Initiates ssa horse rolling about and paving
VIOLENTLY" We do not say that Green O.
tbis badly: he may even surpass a"
horse in The excellence of his -'es
honse III II..t Ine 80 do sav withc. ~ real
t.radiction, that it is not ~, famn faarns anu
do IN any WIN" WIZ, The sort Of thing TO
1 with six chl'' cellar at midnight. an,s
house. -Aren trying TO sleep in the
| But
| IL 1t ls hot only by his stertorous breath
, 1'g and his absurd equine limitations that
1Teen makes himself disagreeable. The
shn Thrr AiSht he came simply as head and
sn9p.uers! There is ghost Cor you! No
.odomen! no legs, Something like R.-
phaefs much chromoed cherubs: only he
was, though without the usual pulmonary
arrangements, able to blow out all the
hents! Then Green, whose PASSION for
,,neiaamorphosls met. seems to be his prominent
Irait OF character, appeared as "a little white
uo9 ana once he came as s'a white gauzy
cloud" AT last Mr. Green, after all his in
cohprenenslble groaming and moaning, he
gan to talk in the English language. He
met Mrs. Green in the cellar, this time with
MS legs on; for she was STOPPING when lie
arrived, and recognized him by those well
IelhenDered limbs. She looked up, and
onele stood Mr. Green, dressed in his grave
cl0thes and quite ready for conversation.
DICK, my dear, what do you want?, said
she. Well, he wanted to tell her that the
other world was painful, and to advise her
not TO neglect her duty; he wanted PRAYERS
offered for his soul; and he left his love to
al mis- relatives by name, and then, with
the observation that he did not intend to
come any more, either in kit-kat or at full
length, Mr.. Green was good enongh TO ex-
male, repeating. for some occult reason, the
word "frend' three times. There has been
a good deal of unaccountable knocking and
| 9roaning in the house since, but the widow
has seen neither the legs not the shoulders
| of her beloved since the subterranean tete-a-
| tete.
There is story, and very pretty ghost
story it is, quite as well authenticated as any
narrative of that impressive description, and
quite as well calculated TO electrfy the hu-
man HART Many a reader will scoff at it,
and within week, with his whole soul, be-
leve something quite as incredible. How
ever it may have once been in Denmark,
there is very little in heaven or earth which
is not dreamed of in our philosophy, or
rather in the mass and maze of conjecture
and delusion to which we give that respecta-
bla name-V Y Tr;hune