The Irish standard., 1886-05-22

she called her. But one morning my
5lady's b,ll rang furiously, and the maid
who answered it was told to do my lady's
native country
Gall the time she was doing it the girl
thought she heard d faint, moaning sound,
rest pale and trembling, and before night
it was very well known i'll the house that
that little closet there was not only locked,
but nailed up.
.There was GOODNESS between my lord
and my lady, and they kept very much
apart; but she had told him also that
Rosette had returned to France, and no
one ever saw the girl again.
"After that my lord seemed to take his
wild ways again, in a measure. and drank
a great deal, and my lady lived very much
! alone. She never had regular maid,
and she was harsh 70 those who waited on
| her. There never were any children, but
! they both lived to be very old indeed, and
at last my lady died in this very room
and was buried in the church yonder.
ssMy lord was as old as she by that
time, but as soon as the funeral was
over he went into my lady's room and
stood a long while before the locked
and nailed closet door.
Then he said to himself: Il cannot die
until know and ordered it to be opened.
s'They sent for the blacksmith to do it.
and all the while my lord sat in his great
armchair staring before him. There
was hundreds Of n;,ils ins it. But they
were all out at last, and the lock was
forced and my lord arose and tottered in
to the closet.
"a bed stood there still and some gowns
hung on the wall, and over the bed one
was lying with cords twisted about it.
Then they looked closer and the maids be-
gan to scream, and the old woman who
remembered Rosette had called out her
name, and my lord turned his pale old
eyes upon them like Il ghost, and said:
God forgive ME and have mercy on both
their souls and held out his hands to be
helped back to his own room. which he
never left after,
cit wasn't much they found, only few
bones and al ornament or two, but it was
plain that the girl had been tied hand and
foot and bound to the bed and left there
to die--if she was not murdered outright
by the jealous lady. But ever since. sir,
whenever there is going to be misfortune
in the family, whoever sleeps here in this
room sees Rosette come out OF her closet
and smile in the glass. No one ever sees
her face, only in reflection. [ hope no
trouble will follow now, SIR"
AS for the American, he slept elsewhere
the next night, he had 10 admiration for
ghosts, even the family ghosts ofnoblemen,
and he had no desire to see Rosette smile
at him in the glass again. The smiles of
a phantom OF two hundred years stand
ing are more awesome than bewitching.
A Novel Method OF Duck Hunting.
All exchange says that there is in Sum-
ter County, Ga, q certain pond or swamp
of 100 acres Or more. The water is very
shallow and grass grows luxuriantly i'll it.
Here horses and cattle love to feed, and
ducks congregate in great numbers. They
do not fear the horses and cattle, but are
very shy when man is around Jimmy
Murphy thought that by hitching his
horse to hat-bottoned boat that he
could drive all over the swamp and kill
no end of ducks. The plan worked well
at first. The horse drew the boat easily,
but when as the right time Jim said
s.Whoa," and jumped up to fire at the
ducks, there was hitch in the pro-
gramme. The horse stopped, but the
boat didn't. 1t quietly tloated on and
banged against the horses hind legs. The
horse jumped, and at that time Jim took
a header backward into the water, his
gun going about twenty feet beyond him.
Just where the gun went is not certain.
1t has not been seen since. The horse
and boat kept right on. When the horse
wanted to stop the boat hit his legs and
urged him forward. When the boat
wanted to stop the horse didn't know it.
FINALLY boat and horse got thoroughly
tangled up, and the latter went down.
Then Jim's brother Tom, who had been
watching the show from the solid land,
waded in and cut the horse loose, and at
the same time Jim waded cut. The boat
was not hurt in the least.