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    890 A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY.

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    The Wet Harvest-Season Of 1852 Must Have...

    large of worshi famil p y in pew the , next the clergyman town . When got but they a did divided appear attention in their

    from the younger part of his congregation , who scanned with Clarkes admiring 9 bonnets eyes the and Master dresses Clarkes . I ' ties know and the collars latter , or often the Miss set

    costing Harriet and thing me thinking that was how the we difficulty could improve ! our own , without

    Besides any my two _, brothers , who were at school , our family consisted of Harrietthe eldestmyselfand Marianor little .

    Minnie as she was , always called , . Yet , Minnie was , nearly as tall and onltwo years younger than Ibut she had Leen a

    delicate child y , consequently much indul , ged , and allowed to follow her own fancy . The idea of asking Minnie to do anything ,

    entered beyond holding ' s a head skein so of she silk used or p to icking lounge a littl about e fruit and , never read

    fairy tales anyone , or poetry , and , sing ballads , or in fine weath , er , roam over the fieldsthe pet and ornament of the place .

    One day in the , beginning of September , there was an appearance of change in the weather ; it really left off raininga sliht

    breeze sprung up , and the pale and watery sun looked , down g at us again from among fleecy clouds like a convalescent in his

    nig ite ht- of cap which . We verdict shook our of our heads understanding and said , " It we is moved too late about ; " in

    was sp with long lighter ing hearts for a walk , and , felt pressed more her cheerful face against . Little , the Minnie windo , w who to

    see all the sky possible , and said , " See Between what twelve the day and will two do , . "

    Alas thi , we shrouded did see ! his A face _^ ain , the the sk sun y again , as if assumed not liking its leaden the look lme of

    and ngs the , ready rain came , down , drip ! drip ! drip ! Oh , if Milton , had lived through such a season , he would never have mentioned

    " Minute drops from off the eaves " among That p evening leasant sounds we had . takentea and were sitting silent about

    the room . A , dull fire was , smouldering in the grate , two unlihted candles stood on the table ( it was worth while to save

    even g in tallow ) , at my mother ' s elbow , she , knitting busily in little the gloom Minnie , Harriet at her sat feet by on her a side low with ottoman a book her on elbows her lap on , and her

    kneesand her eyes fixed , intently on the fire , . On the other the side aid of , of the a room shaded , my lamp father , which was threw making down up a some strong accounts light upon by

    room his papers . E had and drawn my face up , to but my did father not ' s otherwise desk in order illuminate to put the the

    890 A Well-Authenticated Ghost Story.

    890 A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/30/