Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 22, 2025
He know he hab nuffin mo' ter do wid de spooks dan you hab. De run ain' far, and when I gits ober dat de spooks on de side dis way cyant cross arter me;" and he hastened toward the spot where he supposed the Federals had been massed the most heavily, crossing an open field and splashing through a shallow place in the river, that their ghost-ships might be reminded of running water.
"You've set my very brains wool-gathering between you, with your `vessels in distress' and `ghost-ships'; I'm hanged if I won't go down to the engine-room and have a little practical common sense knocked into me, as well as see how they're getting on with the repairs to the machinery!"
To be sure, there are lovers who are watched with considerable interest, such persons having been known, in moments of depression, to offer very desirable ghost-ships; but I did not think of anything of that kind in connection with you.
There's queer things to be heerd, too, in them parts: cries to wind'ard like a drowndin' man, and you can't never find him; noises right under the keel; bells ringin' off the land like, when you a'n't within five hundred miles of shore; and curus hails out o' ghost-ships that sails agin' wind an' tide. Strange! strange! I declare for't! seems as though I heerd my old mother a-singin' Mear now!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking