A GHOSTLY DWARF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10009, 21 December 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

A GHOSTLY DWARF.

Cmsdos House, near Guildford, which belongs to the Earl of Onslow, but is at present let by his lordship to a tenant, is honoured by the visitation, not of one ghost only, bub of three, all of an original and peculiar character. For some time the domestics employed in tho mansion have repoatodly soon a beautiful lady attired in a cream-coloured silk dress, and wearing what they describe as" quite lovely jowels." Sometimes she covers the croamcoloured silk with a black cloak, and occasionally she carries a knife or a tumbler in hor hand. Her favourite haunting ground appoars to bo chiefly tho state bndchambor and the apartment known as tho Yellow Room, which were shut; up for a very long time, but wore thrown open again when the present occupier took the mansion some five or six years ago. In addition to the " lady in cream," there is also frequently seen an apparition in the form of a very ugly female black dwarf, with a flittering ring in her )io3e, and whose dress indicates a Condition •f servitude. She also carried aboub a lighted lantern, There is also said to bo a ouga-looking man, with a board that is« i

evidently the pride of his ghostly existence, bub he has only sought the acquaintance of (i few of tho domestics. The under-footman stoutly maintains that onco ho saw tho "lady in cream'' take a book from the library shelves, and, after glancing through its pages, carefully replace it. A lady spiritualist in the locality has had tho hardihood to converse; with the cream-kid spook, who, it is reported, related at sad a story as ever ghost told. In her tirao she was the precursor of the Woman who Did, and her husband found it out. He accordingly bribed the black dwarf his wife's attendant— to kill her mistress, which she did, and has ever since been going about with a lighted lantern looking for forgivoness.