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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Well, I could sleep in the day time, and then I would stay awake at night," answered the traveling uncle, blinking his ears. "Oh, but aren't you afraid of the bogeyman at night?" inquired the boy with the red hair I mean trousers. "There are no such things as bogeymen," said Uncle Wiggily, "and if there were any, they would not harm you.
The Nipe had become a legend. He had replaced Satan, the Bogeyman, Frankenstein's monster, and Mumbo Jumbo, Lord of the Congo, in the public mind. He had taken on, in popular thought, the attributes of the djinn, the vampire, the ghoul, the werewolf, and every other horror and hobgoblin that the mind of Man had conjured up in the previous half-million years.
When Johnny hesitates about going upstairs in the dark to fetch your work-basket, you remind him of Columbus, who braved the trackless sea and the unknown void in the West, and you exhort him to be a man; but when Johnny was younger you yourself warned him that the Bogeyman would get him if be did not go right to sleep.
He sailed under the flag of the United States, held a commission from the United States, and attacked an enemy with whom the United States was at war. There is no hint of piracy about that; but Jones came to be a sort of bogeyman to the coast towns of the British Isles, who never knew when to expect an attack from him, and no name was too hard for their frightened inhabitants to apply to him.
Dacre will like that too. It'll be something to amuse us when Tommy's gone." Tommy looked across with a grin. "Yes, keep your spirits up!" he said. "It's dull work with the boys away, isn't it, Aunt Mary? And Scooter is a most sagacious animal almost as intelligent as Peter the Great who coils himself on Stella's threshold every night as if he thought the bogeyman was coming to spirit her away.
Is it, for some reason, inappropriate to this particular case? Fetters Fetters the name seems familiar. Who was Fetters, Laura?" "He was the speculator," she said, "who bought and sold negroes, and kept dogs to chase runaways; old Mr. Fetters you must remember old Josh Fetters? When I was a child, my coloured mammy used him for a bogeyman for me, as for her own children."
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