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I 'm goin' now, 'n' I sh'll be back this evenin', 'n' so help me God while I'm gone, for I have a goose-flesh kind o' a sensation 't I'm goin' to get a surprise." Mrs. Lathrop clung to her in a heart-wrung silence. Both the friends were deeply affected, feeling that this journey was a something quite apart from Susan's ordinary every-day little expeditions to the city.
"Rap-rap-rap!" sounded sharply from the head of her bed. Gertie stopped sobbing, and her heart stopped beating. She lay tense and still, listening. Everyone knows that spooks rap three times at the head of one's bed. It's a regular high-sign with them. "Rap-rap-rap!" Gertie's skin became goose-flesh, and coldwater effects chased up and down her spine.
Ugly? David ugly? Why, he was BEAUTIFUL! Suddenly her head dropped upon her arms, now resting on David's manuscript; she sobbed. "Oh, Davy, Davy, I wish you were here! I wish you were here now!" The creaking of the stairs startled her. She half arose and stared at the open door, expecting to see the ghost! Goose-flesh crept out all over her. The ghost that people said came to
Observe her in a ballroom that is overheated in the corners and draughty near the windows, as all ballrooms are. Her neck and her throat, her bosom and arms are bare. Her frock is of the filmiest gossamer stuff; her slippers are paper thin, her stockings the sheerest of textures, yet she doesn't sniff and her nose doesn't turn red and the skin upon her exposed shoulders refuses to goose-flesh.
"Josh said he just set and wrung his hands together, and he says to Hiram Wells, he says, 'Gimme a month and I'll finish it. For the sake, he says, 'of the blessed dead. Gave you goose-flesh, Josh said." "You can see that he believes in his machine." "Oh, he's just as sure as he's alive!" "But why can't he finish it at the Farm? I guess Mis' Dean would give him a closet to keep it in." "Closet?
That evening, when the fire sank low and we turned in, a pack of timber wolves for fully an hour sang us a most interesting lullaby; such a one, indeed, that it made the goose-flesh run up and down our backs or rather my back just as really fine music always does; and to tell the truth, I enjoyed it more than many a human concert I have heard.
If I wished to deceive you, I might add that pin-feathers began to grow from the goose-flesh, but that would be a lie, and lying and I are not friends, and, furthermore, this paper is not written to amaze, but to instruct.
These be players from London town, and I hope they'll play a right good English history-play, like 'The Famous Victories of Henry Fift, to turn a fellow's legs all goose-flesh!" Hodge stopped short in the road. "La!" said he, "I'll go no furder if they turn me to a goose. I wunnot be turned goose, Nick Attwood an' a plague on all witches, says I!" "Oh, pshaw!" laughed Nick; "come on.
The icy breath of the frozen North was in the wind, curdling your blood and turning your skin to goose-flesh; and the sky was of lead, and the streets were slippery and sloppy, and the New York pavements altogether a delusion and a snare. All through this bad, black April day, Mollie Dane had wandered through the house, upstairs and down-stairs, like an uneasy ghost.
"Indeed I am; it used to give me goose-flesh when I first heard it, ever so long ago. It's a dreadfully shivery sound." The man smiled, as if he thought this a pretty fair description. "It is rather spooky," he admitted, "but I love it as a typical sound of the wilderness.
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