The herald., 1894-05-04

minute more Tom hit him BACK. Then
such noise you mover hearn They fit,
fit, fit. AL over ther room they scram-
bled an whadsetl one mother. / got
scared they was muxlerin ala rushed over
to save 'em, but Fsot there toe late. AS
teched ther door Ed strck his knife in
Toms heart an Their poor hey staggered
across ther room ana feN dead. Ed Skipped
through ther door, an before l could
catch him or even say werd he had
gone.
"He left ther place for good tibet
night, an nobody round ther Pint amt
laid Dyes on hisa since. or course it
went hard with jessie, cause she liked
To1n On was by natur' mighty feelin
girl. She's Twin down there yet, an Their
Pint people say she's talxin care O. her
ma an amt no notion of ever gittin mar
ried.
"Well, since tibet night nobody would
move into tbet house. Mr.. Hackney
put Their rera down low--mighty low
for such house as 1t was-but thet
didn' rent it worth cent Every night
after thet one we could hear CHATTER,
groans an them fall. 1t never missed
night. This went On Tor years an years.
So Their house set thar goin to rack.
"Well, last year when times was SO
hard Mr.. Hackney said he'd like to sell
it. We he'd an idee he would too. But
who was goin to buy it? AS ther sum-
NOR went by an times got harder Mr..
Hackney would como down in his tigers.
He did this rog'la every month, an yet
nobody would buy. In September me an
Debora got mighty blue We hedn't
been maxim nothin an was still dom Their
same.
1--WE looked down in thet old SOCK an
found just fifteen dollars an quarter.
Thet would pay Their rent three months
longer, rrovidin we didn't eat nutnin
durin thet time. If we did, then we
could only count on Twin in thor house
two months longer, then bcin dumped
out in ther mud. We didn't know what
to do. / spent my time walhin ther front
gallery, tryin to scratch some sort O.
idee out O. my head, an Debora took
Their back gallery to herself. About tibet
time we kivered more ground walkin
them galleries then we he'd any idee Of
But to save my head I couldn't get an
idee in it, Debora beat me there. One
evenin she flop through ther house an
say;
"'Joe, i got an idee.
"'Out with it, says !.
Hero tits, says She Mr.. Hack
ney's figures gone down to $15 for tibet
haunted house. Let's buy it an move it
up to our lot, live in it an save house
rent
What about Their ha'nts?' says !.
" Turn 'em out, says she. Turn ther
ha'nts inside out. Seer
Now, wasn't tibet an idee for you?
We fished out tibet sock, paid Mr.. Hack
ney for Their ha,nted house, an me an
Debora took it good. You ought to seen
her pullin out the nails with ther crow
bari Such trump my Dsbora is. any
howl We borrowed two poles, fiat and
skiff an towed itup here In our skiff
was two sets Of oars. Debora he'd one
set, me t'other, an I tell you we made
tibet fat move. Then we put it up We
turned all Their boards Inside out like
Debora said, an scattered 'en all round.
So when it was done there want no enc
wall high as it was at fust 1t was for
sure turned inside out
Zone night ther ha'nts was maxim a
fuss, an I warn't payfn no 'tention to
'em, but Debora sided up fight close an
says right out an in trenBlyfied tone,
'J-o-o-e, air you asleep
Yes, says /. Don't wake me.
DO you hear them ha'nts, J-o-o-e?'
YES, says /, but they is outside
an pretty scattered. One ghost foot in
this room, one in ther other, an ther
hands an feet's in ther other part O.
Their house an stand all outside You
amt Arid of ghost tenants, air you,
Debora? It's your idee.' Dsbora went
to sleep, an she ain t said 'ha 'nts' to me
since.
Theirs small racket round of
nights--it is so scattered we don mind
it.
Fisherman Joe refilled his pipe,
glanced around over bis house, and with
breath long and full Of content said:
"Yes, thet was Debora's idee Wurth
considerin, wasn't Virginia Payne
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