A GHOST AT ST. CLAIR.

Evening Star, Issue 7362, 7 November 1887, Page 4

A GHOST AT ST. CLAIR.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—lt has been surmised that the nymphs who disport themselves in the bath through the sunny hours of summer days at St. Clair must have avenged themselves, at some time past, on some presumptuous intruder, on whom they c»st a spell so potent that, by their silent exercise of will, he was irresistibly drawn intc the water, anl there transferred to the tender mercies of the mermaids to expiate his folly under their fury in unfathomable depths below, and that, wearying the very mermaids by his intolerable presence, he has by them been " doomed for a time to walk this earth " in form and habit as he was wont before. In fact "to walk this earth " seemß the inexorably enforced limit of his occupation, except the alternative, which confirmed habit makes evidently preferable, of sitting on the slope of the fort, when, and so long only as the water nymphs disport themselves, he ruefully peers down upon them with bis ghostly eyes. For two summers past the apparition has been seen in its habitual posture by the hour daily, and it lias now appeared again. It speaks to none, but may be if someone spoke to it it might vanish, as most ghosts do, into thin air and never trouble us again. Speak to it, Mr Editor, when you see it, and earn the immortal gratitude of yours ever, The Coy Nymphs.