Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

1.-The only true ghost story Know IS the story of Choker's ghost. That is positive fact well attested. All the neighbors know what happened. All the, neighbors saw all that was to be seen. Al, the neighbors saw how it began, and as it is the story of Choker's ghost, it could not have begun until Choker died.
 0'i Old Choker he had been called for good many years-before he was actu- ally old, should suppose; but he was a very queer fellow, man without relatives or friends, and who seemed to want none. ff.-v- He was a mysterious man, too.
 He had wooden leg, and no one knew how he came by it..
 He had black patcn over one eye, and no one knew why he wore it.
 He had rusty brown wig, and there was no man intimate enough to know whether he adopted it because he was bald or because he was gray. ,.r i He, had deposit in the bank and no -oae knew how he earned the money.
 He came stranger to Grabtown and bought a hnnsez aad- -Iistle faraa there, giving his name as Guy Choker.
 That was all that any one knew about him, except that he had the best crops to be seen for miles around. Z.
 He never went to church, and never chatted to neighbor. No one knew anything against. him; as they knew nothing, they suspected great deal i; and when at last he was found dead one morning, all the bottled-up curiosity popped out as champagne does when it is uncorked.
 Everybody went to see him where he lay. @ -.-. ..-..-.. E |f
 Everybody attended the inquest, and everybody went to the funeral.
 It was decided that he died of apo plexy. =ea.-.s5 .a uI as-.
 There was no relation to see him, but .. there would be probably plenty left to pay for his funeral, so there was no diff ficulty about that. .E
 The clergyman said a doubtful sort of good word for him, and as he was dead, !, f no one contradieted
 s And Peggy Kinder, who said she wasn't afraid of anything, was put into the house to take care of it. zass-
 She knew old Choker very we'll having done washing for him for five years. That night, the weather being chilly spring weather, she made up good fire in the kitchen and slept on an old lounge there. Once in the night, she woke up and thought she heard the clump, clump, clump of a wooden leg overhead, but though she felt chill run up her back bone at the thought, she made up her mind that it was all nonsense and went . to sleep again. At six she was up and had put more coal on the fire and was filling the ket- tie, when positively-no fancy about it thisi time-she did hear that clump, clump, again across the room upstairs, half dozen times, then down the stairs.
 The sound of .Choker's wooden leg and nothing else; and-as she turned about shaking and trembling, she saw Choker himself at theSdoor in his big lowered dressing gown, with the black patch oyer hiseye, and the brown wig "a on. ii5Is-sss< %~ s$s &a> e.
 'eEord have mercy on us!' cried Peggy. s.4ss.s-A. .-5 -- -&
 Then as Choker nodded cheerfully and said: Breakfast ready yet?" she grew bewildered,
 "I'Ve been having horrid dream, sir,' she said, getting away from the figure, though, as she spoke; ''and it's as natural as life. dreamed you were dead, sir, but it was SO natural that you skeer me-"
 ''Do oI?'' said old Choker. "Why bless ye, we must all die."
 ''Yes, sir" said Peggy.
 ''And all be buried, too," said Choker
 t''I know that, said Peggy.
 "Only all of us won't stay buried, , said Choker putting his finger to his nose.
 And at that Peggy never waiting ever for her bonnet, bolted out of the house and came tumbling into her daughters half an hour after, shaking with fright . and vowing she had seen Choker'. ghost. ..-.--
 The daughter was nearly as mucf Frightened as the mother, and the new! spread, but nobody believed it.
 At least every one said it was ridicu lous, and that Peggy must have beer drinking. '=.--
 She did drink more than was good fol