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Updated: April 30, 2025
He bounced up and stared at me wild. Then he drops down on his knees, and puts his hands together and says: "Doan' hurt me don't! I hain't ever done no harm to a ghos'. I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for 'em. You go en git in de river agin, whah you b'longs, en doan' do nuffn to Ole Jim, 'at 'uz awluz yo' fren'." Well, I warn't long making him understand I warn't dead.
No, I ain' nebber se'd any ghos'. I'se bin in de woods en dark places, but didn't see nothin', en I'se not goin' ter say I did kaze I might git par'lized. I went ter schul one y'ar at Fisk in de y'ar 1869. De last man I wuk'd fer wuz at de Link Hotel. Den I started keepin' boarders. Hab fed all deze Nashville police. De police ez de ones dat hep'ed git deze relief orders fer me.
Dere's spooks on'y fer dem w'at kills folks on de sly-like. If ole Perkins come rarin' en tarin' wid his gun en dawg, I des kill 'im ez I wud a rattler en he kyant bodder me no mo'; but ef I steal on 'im now en kill 'im in he sleep he ghos pester me ter daith. Dat de conslomeration ob de hull business. I doan ax you ter do any ting but he'p me skeer' im mos' ter daith.
I get as cold and humide, and shake like a leaf. You think it was nothing? I dropp' on the grass from scared they pass'; so sure as I live 'twas the ghos' of Jacques Poquelin, his brother!" "Pooh!" said the listener. "I'll put my han' in the fire," said the interpreter.
"Whatever is the matter?" demanded Captain Hazzard, gazing sternly at the trembling negro. "Oh, Massa Hazzard, ah done see a ghos' light in dar sky," he yelled. "Silence, sir, and stop that abominable noise. Frank, what do you know about this?" "Only that I really believe he saw such a thing, sir." "What, a light in the sky!" echoed Captain Barrington. "Did you see it, too?" "Not to-night, sir."
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