Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-24

fellow told the fiddlers to give % some
Yankee music, and shouted Partners
for 3 quadrille'-well, as the deacon
SAID when he found that the widow
what ne was going to marry didn't
nave any money, Circumstances do
alter cases. IL so be that Won ever
went toa dance after having been on
board ship for six months.
you may know how It happened
that | never looked at my watch or
thought about time till little girl as /
was soft on says 10 me, Jack, say 3
she, i never kuowed It to come /
O'Clock SO soon With that was
! struck dumb, and pulled out my watch
and sure enough / saw she was right.
knew that 1 was to pass the word
I n the men TO go aboard. So found
them all and they all said one more
dance, jack So said Here 80.
II there are two men there off we 70,
and the rest'll be arrested for desert
srs.
$50 / started out alone, and the door
was shut behind me. Dark? There
was hardly star for q man to take his
bearing by, but forged ahead the best
/ could. Then l began to think of the
banshees and the witches and the
ghosts that I'd read about In that book
was telling you Of. Why, could
remember every word I'd ever heard
about ghosts. And then it was so still.
If / could have heard a dog bark or
something of that kind 1t would have
been company for me. But there
was nothing for it but
to keep on, because / knew
If 1 went back I'd never reach the
/ - 70 10. A,a. Il
kept my head up and good lookout
first on one side and then on the other.
I'd walked very fast about five min
utes, / reckon, and was feeling very
much reassured, when all at once
I something caught me ABOUT the shanks
and gave me a heave forward thai
made me plunge my nose through 6
fathom of dirt Topped over or
4 one side, thinking that maybe some
, one was playing a trick on me
: but nightly afraid the bansheei
, were after me, when saw the eartl
open, and in the midst of faint clout
I of smoke there rose up monster will
4 thick round body, with long, thiI
n legs, and, above all, two long arm
n that seemed to project forward. Ash
q reached its full height 1t began b
4 wave those frighiful arms at me ant
: give the most horrible wells ant
groans. The sweat started out all owe
. me, and / tried to yell, too, but it wa
n no use. My mouth was that dry an
# my tongue that thick couldn't max
4 q sound. And all the time the smolS
q kept rising, and the arms seemed I
q come nearer, and the horrible yell
J and walls grew louder. ] crawled u
n on to my knees then and began 10 r,
n peat prayer. Then the apparitio
" stopped its wailing for moment, an
% / could hear the men coming down th
:. hill grumbling because I'd been |
r such deuce OF hurry.
- with that began
q think how l could warn theI
, not to come that way further, bu
70 l couldn't move. They were gettin
:. in sight then, and ] recognized th
voice of the stroke oar, who was say
N ing: Where the thunder did this col
n founded iackass come from? Git OF
"a of thisp and with that the who'll Gre
II of them fell on my banshee and bega
a to kick and belabor it. Did tell thei
N that had taken 1t for q ghosl2 New
ar n bit. l had fallen over 1t, and
No clear myself had only TO tell a beggar
40 lie about drinking TOO much mount
me- dew with the little girl was soft on