Cheerful.

Otago Witness, Issue 2211, 16 July 1896, Page 52

Cheerful.

A nervous young miaister, ia visiting a remote village, had an unpleasant experience. The old hdy ab whose house ha stayed, in showing him to his room, said :—: —

"It ain't anybody I'd put in this room. This here room is full of sacred associations to me," she went on. "My first husband died in thnt bed with his head oa these pillows, and poor Mr Jen kg died sitting in that corner. Sometimes when I come into the room in tho dirk I think I see him sitting there still. My own father died Uyin' right ou that lounge right uuder the window (here. Poor pa, he wag a spiritualist, and he allus said he'd appear in this room after- he died, and sometimes I am foolish enough to look for him. If you should see anything of him to-pight, you'd better not tell me. It'd be a sign -to me that there was something in spiritualism, and I'd hate to think that. My soa by my first mvii fell dead of heart disease right where you stand. Ho was a doctor, and there's two whole skeletons in that closet there belonged to him, and' half a dozen skulls in that lower drawer. If you are up early and want something to amuse yourself with before breakfast, just open that cupboard there and you will fiud a lot of dead men's boneß. My poor boy thought a lot of them. Well, good-night, aud pleasant dreams."