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Updated: June 28, 2025
It was only a cat bird," scoffed George Baker. "Who's afraid of spooks, anyway? The fact is that those girls have outwitted us three times. We have lost the wager. Now the question is, when did they get away?" Larry declared that he had never removed his gaze from the anchor light during his whole watch, except when he went to get wood for the campfire.
I'm up a tree downright bushed when you begin upon your queer ideas all those new-fangled religions and notions Theosophy, spooks about the earth being alive, and thoughts making a sort of wireless telegraph system I do believe in that, though to a certain extent. And your Brotherhood of Man! Bosh! We're all like a lot of potatoes thrown into a sack and shaken about by circumstance.
During the day the rudiments of imagination which made him a musician had been conjuring up the possible results of his expedition. "De ting fer dis cullud pusson ter do is ter p'ramberlate ter de Linkum lines. Ki! I doan wan' what drap outen OUR sogers' pockets. I kin git Virginny leaf widouten runnin' 'mong de spooks arter it.
I am perfectly sure they will come along the path from the gate keeper's cottage. Either they are inside or permitted to enter, and it isn't likely that ordinary spooks come through such walls as ours." "All right. I'll be there if I don't fall asleep over my trig. But I do think being arrested is awfully wearying I could dream here in spite of the howling winds.
"Oh! be off with your talk of spooks," I said, "and come back quickly with those oxen, or I promise you that you will die and be a spook yourself." "I will, Baas, I will!" he ejaculated and departed almost at a run, leaving me rather uncomfortable.
He lived in the midst of furies and fairies, nymphs and naiads, goblins and ghosts, witches and wizards, sprites and spooks, deities and devils.
"Folks say," he continued, "them grounds is full of hejious reptyles, an' I've heerd fellers tell queer things they've seen when passin' there at night red lights a-flyin' about an' spooks at the winders.
Georgina named several terrors at which he stoutly shook his head, but presently with uncanny insight she touched upon his weakest point. "Would you be afraid of coffins and spooks or to go to a graveyard in the dead of the night the way Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn did?" Not having read Tom Sawyer, Richard evaded the question by asking, "How did they do?" "Oh, don't you know?
As Cameron was preparing to camp for the night there came over him a strong but unaccountable presentiment of approaching evil, an irresistible feeling that he ought to press forward. "Pshaw! I will be seeing spooks next!" he said impatiently to himself. "I suppose it is the Highlander in me that is seeing visions and dreaming dreams. I must eat, however, no matter what is going to happen."
To plunge down here was like taking a dip into Dante's 'Inferno, it looked so particularly dark and gloomy, and such a suitable place for anything ghostly. "I wish we'd brought a lantern with us!" murmured Mavis. "Then we shouldn't see any spooks!" declared Merle. "Come along! Let's go as far as the old gate at any rate. I dare you both to come! Who's afraid?"
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