A Ghost Story.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6602, 6 May 1890, Page 1

A Ghost Story.

As we sat round the table, covered with a icd cloth as n contrcst to the green dishes, nnd lighted' with wax undies, in old fashioned brass candle* sucks, oi • hoß'eea (saya J; F. Panton, jn Bypaths and enssßoads') told us now once the house was oveiful on the . occasion of a wedding, and how she had » put a couple of girls i u tho ghostroom thinking there would, at all events be safety u numbers, and ono would protect thoother dming theshnit.hour* oi the August night. -*I & haU never forget the girl, when they c «me into our room, said she, laughing, Kfa iho>W in in the middle of tho night, and tcld.ua they, had heard/a succession of shols «i the r.oxt room followed by the-falling of heavy drops of blood on (ho floor. I must say I felt a trifle fqueamish myself, but Tom got up, and he and I.wmtia, and mire enough we heard lira) blood iroppHMf, too. Jt was a very still hiight, with the harvest moon just over the - house yonder, and it shone iin, so we dulnt wai.t any «.ndlc<=v wA'm we stood theto, listening -it had inikr a gruesome sound; but-all n once Tom said, 'There's naught but your jam. closetMliere'/missor. here'b no room for pistols 'or . Moid, , and in a''moment"l •knew what it was. I'd been hotting go6sftberries- some ' Wks' sgo, and . put em k there out ,rf ,the way, and .. the horrid.things, had ..fermented, or' something, and gone on working until ' ff / 'M'.pqpESlput the corks, and the blood was my nice ripe red gooseberry ' juice falling down ou 'the thclvee, and creeping out vnderneath; for there! t |!d. forgotten" the best part of, the story, which was that tho girls wouldn't call us until they saw the blood actually coming, iato the raom-n sight they showed us' naturally enough when we came in with 'em. I can tell you thoy weie laughed at, and they don't like .being offered , ripe gooseberry tart" even'now! if* yotf'l come with me V can show you exactly where the ghost was.' - <■- >,