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It was soon lost to sight; but the unearthly creaking of the wheels, the tramping of the horses, and the appalling cries of the banshee continued to assail their ears for a considerable time after all had vanished. The brave fellows now returned to the house; they again made fast the door, and reloaded their arms.

"Kathleen could never die," Mrs. O'Brien said, "without I'ld hear the banshee." "The banshee?" said John. "There's no banshee here. There's banshees only in Ireland." "Our banshee is here," his mother answered. "I know she is here. You've heard me tell of her.

They complained that locked doors up there flew open, and bolted windows were found unbolted. In storm the wind keened like a banshee, and one bright snowy morning a housemaid, who had business there, found a slender wet footprint on the floor as of some one who had come barefoot through the snow; and fled down shrieking.

My own mother's family had a banshee; and, now I come to think of it, it has comforted me in many a cold hour." "And think," he went on, "of that stream of blood and poison that spurted from his thin lips the instant you so much as mentioned his ancestors. Why should he show every stranger over such a Chamber of Horrors unless he is proud of it?

"I shall scarcely notice it to-night." And it was at this point that Miss Whiffle walked like a banshee into the disturbed chambers of my life, and completed my demoralization. I must premise that I am an exquisitively nervous man one who would accept almost ridiculous impositions if the alternative were a "scene."

With a face scarlet from indignation she immediately ordered her carriage home, but before it had arrived there the intelligence from another source had reached the family, together with the fact that the Banshee had been heard by Mr. Goodwin's servants under Miss Alice's window.

If you are trying to pick a quarrel you may as well go along home, for I'm positively not going to fuss with you about anything whatsoevah until aftah all the company is gone." "No'm! I don't want to quarrel," responded Rob, with exaggerated meekness. "I was merely giving you a warning sort of playing Banshee for your benefit, but you don't seem to appreciate my efforts.

It was only a few weeks ago that the hooker had capsized crossing to Westport, and the famine that is always stalking ghost-like in Achill was forgotten in the contemplation of new graves. The Island was full of widows and orphans and bereaved old people; there was scarce a window sill in Achill by which the banshee had not cried. Where all were in trouble there were few to go about with comfort.

Poor lads! that had taken such a beating that day, such a cudgelling for my sake; and here I stood at my own door in a wonder of amazement, and something of fright, thinking I had heard a banshee wail. The two misused lads had slipped out of my memory as completely as the devil slipped off Macgillicuddy Reeks into the pond beneath when Saint Patrick had sent the holy words after him.

Cattle will not graze near the haunted butte and the cowboys keep aloof from it, for the word has never been spoken that will solve the mystery of the region or quiet the unhappy banshee. The creature has a companion, sometimes, in an unfleshed skeleton that trudges about the ash and clay and haunts the camps in a search for music.