Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-07

haired, white-bearded old man, fantas-
tically garlanded with PUSHES and flowers,
1t appeared beside the Wishing Gue
precisely at midnight, and stood TOT
little time ms II waiting for some one that
never came. Then It went away. some
one had heard Il moan as II di appeared
"She will surely come next OswA.ds
nightw
This plant Of the boyle had passed
Into sort Of saying among The valley
folk regarding anything expected or d.
sired at the rushbelring season OF me
year. Many were in terror OF the wrath,
and not few OF the older peasant folk
complained Of the vicar Of st. Oswalds
for not laying the ghaiit.' u any cool
priest might do If he would; as had been
done ia Westmoreland times Without
number before him. There were strange
whispers, too, that this boyle bort some
mysterious relation TO the almost deadly
hatred that had shidow,d the live. Of
Two OF tile oldest families Of Westmore-
and-the Seacrofts Of Roselale Manor
which stood among noble sycamures on
the Grnsmere side of Fairfield mountains,
Just above the hamlet, and the Oh girihs
of Dppplnle Hall on the eastern SIDE Of
Fairfield. one of the rema ming sta ely
mansions of the olden kings OF Patterlale
and Ullswater.
II was also believed by a few that old
Ge0rdle Nicholson, for near,y half q cen
tury the most trusted servant Of the
SracrOfts, had been instrumental many
years before in preventing a trysi, which
II kept nigh! nave changed me iortunes
OF eot1 iamihes' pe,weeh rye Inlr M ~
raret Carew, who alterward became the
lady Of Rosedale Manor, and her then
lover, an O.dgarth As dlmly but as
surely, too. u had grown Into popular be-
lief that Old Geordie was somehow re-
sponslhle for the Boyle OF the Wishing
aH,g. Nh, Fl ~ f,rr,oJ. fsll3ty serTenf
TWi,'S,, ~ HISr,i ne trn.ta1 ra1nnat,ion h.
S,I ,.,,r,ste, ~. ,.l"y" me- tTonblesome
,,raitb and como ait Of the valorons
-, NTH Iittin moro 4hon his life
Wbot bad occurrcd bod never been dl.
v,',cd. I'M +be Bople Of he Wishing
GStc br1 talen ON added terrors. md
1'rnsty Harris had mover got so near the
nreysotnc subject. even with his boon
companions. as at this moment he seemed
90 be.
III YEN promish { keep 1t glrt { YER
sells, lads" con iuued Curty, edpus
close 10 HE friends with ehecpish hut
worried look in his face. III tel ye what
! hand last rushbcirln' meet
They promised hravey and the four old
heads were together 10 nn instant.
"Wecl, Geordie Nicholson, .comd
! mra an says. 'tnrly, ! cam stem y
J M l0anger j says / Geordie, Doant;
/ i.oril Il yen gaze WI meo/ says Georl,e-
| 'Gae wher, monf says l, Worried
WI tn fearce way he loolset. ia N
/ holt { lay tn gnalst o. the Mush,n
holt { lay IN ghaist o IN Wush n
GeatV says Geordie, greaye as a passon.
/ Ne'll I've daft II ye DO. says l. III hn
/ daft II doant.' Gays he, beatin his head
/ and his breastle, like he'd sair con-
sence.
"Scein' sumbuddy must gao wi
| Geordle gev In, but tell him to his
head ia hey ma han WI tn Eha'sf.
Leave tn ghaist { meal says Geordie,
shakiu' his stool stick, an akin wud /
hev pint o yell afore goin' It's dowly
warli we're at Geordie says l, an
ia tcytcr hey swoap o rum nor .
pint O. ycll.' Georlie bro't Il fra tn
Dove. an we set cot
"'Twor a half hour t midneet; fer
| Gcor,ie war bund TO make tn Wush'n
Geat aforo III boyle. We clomb tn
holt wioot iowr,n or freet. though III
noet war Bit scnumy. an war snin
dodderin' an shiverin' by tn haunted
cent 'Howp over nj geat' saws Geor-
die. AN hide ahlnt m WALL
"Ue holn'd mo over an rev mea some
eobble-stanes I heczc az III ghnlst. if II
snd he geftin' N best O Geordie. / Ind
nil MAR thpn CAT In pleace. so | end kleek
ov,cr III wall at = scrafIlc when Geor.