The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-01-13

Ghost Stores.

MAS born in . country not ill-peo-
Piled with ghosts and ghosts. - We eli
know, from the wrath Of Pstroelus
downwards. make themselves very use
ful to the poet. But here again I have
been uniucky. II was my mothers maid,
n". l. who heard the silks OF . spectral
lady rustling behind her late at night
IN the long gallery at home, and who
had not courage enough to turn round
aud behold the ghastly visaxc which
probably surmounted them Once, too,
An old shepherd came in froa the
mountain valleys TO nasrsts bow, on .
mid winter night, o. he drove sheep
past lonely farm, IN old and saga
cioss dog bowlsd ssd showed evident
signs Of terror. creeping trenblingly
back with ita yossg eomrads TO bis feet.
before his masters duller eye discerned,
rs it soon did. with ave, . white woman
with . child III her arms. doomed. -
she told him. for her guilt to wander
restlessly along the wilds, aud suffered
one night every year to appear and tell
her story.
But unluckily then l Was too small .
child to be allowed to listen to bis
thrilling narration, which surprised my
father very much. for the man was So
Der and had no motive for it, invention.
l passed the house near which this
strange meeting took place, left unten-
anted aud desolats for twenty years Or go
10 con nsequence. and could not help en-
vying my fathers good fortune, who at
least had seen the man who saw the
ghost. have always remained one re
move further of-s decided disadvsn-
tsge.
That was my position when. on the
lovely lake Of Hawcswater, . worthy
friend OF mine told me how . man he
knew. once fishing ct midnight. under
bssutiful Wsllercrag (whers, it 10 we'll
known. sleeps the iinp.isooed spirit of
the Viscount Lon>dale Of George the
Second's time), heard . crashing sound
as IT the whole mountain were falling
down on him. aud hed. smashing his
fishing line in the fall, and thsncsforth
foreswesring fishing rather than run
the ris< Of meeting the grim ghost.
which he thought WAS then breaking
its bounds.
Those bounds were set to it with dif- |
ficulty by conclsve Of the clergy of
the period; one Of whom had pursued |
1t up the river to the lake whence it |
flows. kuocking his shins sadly against
the stones in its rocky bed, but still
msnfuliy holding fast to the Book Of
Common Prayer. and reading from it
hsa s.vHs AnA
When at last the spirit. so compelled.
showed symptoms Of resting beneath
Wallercrsg. the brave parson, jointly
with several Of his rsverend brethren.
lat !lnattoPPea dhe. .a"k. .iac- qtst;"R aaa hasS
had lain him
For ever and ever and aye.
But voice from the mountain-hollow
mockingly echoed back, time after time.
The spirits ultimatum:
No, for year and day.
And how far the assembled priests
succeeded in making him desist from
bis counter proposition remains to this
day . little uncertain. At least my
friend knew . mau (you
see never get any nearer to ghosts
than that, who had many time heard
. carriage coming down the steep bank
Oh which Lowther Castle rises above |
the river of the same name. and held
open the gate for it at the bottom, ~ in
duty bound. But he knew we'll that !
the carrisge held IN occupant who had
no longer any business with this world: !
and a. he described the matter. ''sOme- |
times his coachman and bis horsss had |
their heads on but oftener they had
not "-Bhckroods N1od,ine.