The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-12-23

brush at me! was wide awake on my
feet, in my full senses, and there she
was! And you know can't help it.
It's fate, Fred-fate."
And Uncle Guilfoil covered his head
with the bed-clothes, and Fred, with q
very long face, took his leave and ran at
full speed, first for the doctor and then
for his mother, whom he Mortified by
the intelligence that Uncle Guilfoil had
suddenly gone mad.
In an hour medical attendance and
anxious relatives surrounded the old
bachelor.
The physician found Mr.. Guilfeil in
an extremely nervous condition, and
firm in his faith in the appearance of
the night before.
GA most terrible creature, Doctor"
he said, pathetically; sand as it is my
fate to marry her if I live, I hope this is
my last illness. think it very proba-
BILE that it is. I can't live for such .
fate."
"Hem," said the doctor, Sc did you see
the females facet, I doubt that you
saw any thing, but did you think you
saw face you knew!'
| She wore q red dress, q green
jacket, and yellow bonnet, and shook
q hearth-broom at me,n said Mr.. Gull
foil. 81 think should know her, if /
were to see her anywhere"
Gay costume for an elderly fe-
male, :" said the doctor.
eyes, said Mr.. Guilfoil. 81 think
it was emblematical. -
Ell? ?n said the doctor.
"Emblematic, y said Guilfoil. 8 When
1 meet her, doubtless she will have a
black silk dress and white puffed hair.
This figure-I've thought it all out
had red for fury, green for jealousy,
yellow for melancholy. That's what /
believe; and the hearth-brush to de-
InOte-''
| "Nursing herwrath to keep itwarm, y
said the doctor.
Exactly,n assented Mr.. Guilfoil.
How do you know some one has
not played trick on you?" said the
doctor; this seems mischievous mas
querade to me-"
"Doctor, said Mr.. Guilfoil, "when ]
tried to grasp the form, my fingers
closed on air. No, it was . vision; and
if 1 live, I'm doomed; consequently,
Iprefer to die. -
Great was the CONSERVATION among
Mr.. Guilfoil's relations great the grief
| for he was much beloved; but there
seemed to be no doubt that their respect
ed relative had been seized with mono
mania. The doctor said SO; and, more
over, he was really quite i'll. Nerves
} upset altogether, ~ said the doctor; s'wt
, can't foresee the consequences. And
, the lawyer agreed with the doctor, when
( being sent for to make Mr.. Guilfoil'.
! will, he desired to have it distinctl,
{ stated that "not penny was be
) queathed to his wife,"
l "But believed you bachelor, Mr.
Guilfoil, )" said the lawyer.
>, 81 may have virago with hearth
: brush in her hand, for my wife, if liv
long enough, so put it in" said Mr.
s Guilfoil.
Evidently he was in no condition t
: make will on that day, declared tn
Illegal and medical gentlemen in concert
8 Absurd as the cause appeared, tn
J, efforts were serious. Day by day th
e doctor came, shook his head, felt Mi
|, Guilfoil's pulse, and wrote prescrir
o ton. Day by day Mr.. Guilfoil, who's
illness had begun with slight nervou
+ headache, felt the effects Of continus
4 confinement, and dose-taking, and th
d amiable anxiety Of his relatives concern
e ing his mind. That he had seen
d woman wearing odd raiment, shaking
It hearth-brush at him, on that dreadfl
/, Halloween midnight, he was well a
, sured. And it enraged him to thin
that he should be supposed madma
Is in consequence.
nj He no longer desired to die, but ratl
J. er to live, in order that he might prov
II to these people that what he had see
was veritable Halloween vision pr
Ts monition of future matrimonial misel
!, and he would have hailed the appea
d ance Of virago with matrimonial il
tentions with Joy. One morning !
- arose from his bed, threw of his nigh
~ cap, dismissed the doctor with the r
sr mark that he was an idiot, told his 81
70 ter that she was another, and sent b.
home In tears, and betook himself
writing q book, in which he stoutly d
Tended ghost-seers generally, and pa
ticularly insisted upon the fact that HI
g loween wraiths we're actually to be sol
by any who would at midnight, on til
ID anniversary, walk in q circle, castir
ID hemp-seed over the left shoulder, aI
K, chanting the necessary rhymes.
n When few chapters Of this book b,
been read. Mr.. Guihoil's sister insist'
ID that Fred should contrive to remain.
his uncless house as 4 sort Of amate
j; keeper: 'sElse," cried the good lad
IN :" he'll do something dreadful to hiI