The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1913-01-09
GHOSTS OF ANIMALS
COME BACK TO
Many Strange supersttions Current Respecting Domestic
NPets-Phantom Foxes Seen-One Man Says He
s 8@E Saw Horse Long Dead. 4

foxes presented themselves. The family
crest is a running fox and the coat OF
arms is supported by 4 similar animal.
Now. no one can bear testimony as to
whether there are 1--we foxes drawn from
their dens or mere apparitions. No one, Il
seems, has ever caught or tried to catch
any OF them. The fact that the dogs In
the neighborhood did not annoy the foxes
would tend TO prove that the visitors were
apparitions, not real animals.
Another story from ireland: The FAM
lily or Patrick Plunkett, a well-to-do
stocknan, rented q house In the parish
OF Donore. county R-osecommon. Mrs.
Piunkett was worried by frequently find-
ing the footmarks OF a large dog on the
floors. b never saw the animal, but her
mother, an old lady, said that she had
seen him; that he was brown in color with
two white feet. and that he walked with
a limp: that he smelled around q certain
old chair and the fireplace and then left
the room by a window. s
Upon mentioning this apparition in the
neighborhood village. an old woman told
Mrs. Plunkett that the late Sir Greville
Nugent, who had occupied the house some
80 years previously. had a dog Of such a
sort; that the animal a been acci-
dentally shot, and limped afterward. Sir
Greyiile had used the particular room
wherein Mrs. Plunkett's mother had seen
the dog as q sitting room, and the dog
probably had been much In il. There was
another dog about the grounds, a black
hound. seen at night. and there are the
usual legends OF horses refusing to pass
the place where he was seen at night.
This. however, is In line with the ECU
lar Irish ghost stories. haf
This one through an E~nglishman
who was travelling in India Sir Elston
CTuikshank was travelling with q large
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camped one night near a ruined temple
and resolved TO make use Of II to sleep
In. The native servants with the party
begged them not TO do so, that many
travellers had tried TO rest there, but never
succeeded in getting sleep. The English
man pooh-poohed the story and retired.
About dark three English dogs. with the
party pTecipitately fed the place bowling
dismally. Then the members or the party
began to feel nervous and sIeepless. BY
and by there was a large tramplng as OF
horses hoofs, but nothing could be seen.
No sleep was got that night, and In the
morning the hoof marks OF a horse were
plainly visible. The natives took this as
La matter OF course. They said that a
black horse was known to enter the tenn
pie every night. 1t seems that his owner
had been very fond OF the horse and when
he died ordered that the animal be put to
death and buried on a. hill near him.
From London, England, not a credulous
place, surely, this story zones A mem
Der OF the famous banking house Of
Coutts was very fond OF a tame robin
that came and fed off his hand. The bird
died before the banker did, but Mrs.
Coutts. who afterward married the Duke
of peyonshiTe, held that the bird appeared
at the window OF the room Mr., Coutts had
occupied. Inc when she was dying begged
to be taken to the room In question that
she might again see the phantom robin.
Mrs. Coutts, however. always thought the
apparation was her husband In bird form.
This story am under the observation
of the writer in ireland. A mare died
when, she had a colt about Ave months
old, "A former servant OF the house came
to visit after the mares death, md. not
knowing that she was dead, remarked
that he had seen her with her colt. When
told that she had been dead for four
months he expressed surprise. but adhered
to his story. . 49,. ....., ~ Co.,.
II even heard the colt whinny his well
come" said the man. This explained
something that no one had been able to
account for. The colt had been In the
habit of neighing a welcome to something
that no one could understand. He seemed
to remember his mother. He was moved
TO another stable n the old one painted
and cleaned out, but the other horses
refused to enter it for a long time after
ward.
AT Umbayo, South Africa, John Jeter,
an English settler, had a very fine hound
run over and killed by a train. For months
after Mr.. letters. family was much an
noyed by the wild whistling OF the pass
ing engineers. On complaining OF IT the
engineers told him that he should keep
his dog at home; that It was only dona
to save the animal, for he was always
on the tracks. The men described the ami
NAL with the utmost accuracy and added
that he refused to leave the track until
the engine was almost upon him.
or course all these stories cannot be
legally proved, but II everything In life
dull and cynical and narrow-minded
world. II "