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I jest seen the ghost! 'Ghost! says all on us, sittin' up, ye may be sure, Peter. 'Ay, says John, lookin' over 'is shoulder, scared-like, 'seed un wi' my two eyes, I did, an' what's more, I heerd un tu! 'Wheer? says all on us, beginnin' to look over our shoulders likewise. 'Wheer? says John, 'wheer should I see un but in that theer ghashly 'Oller.
She nodded her head towards the door, and he interpreted this to mean Miss Squibb. "Oh, yes," he said. "She told me about you. Were you very late last night?" She laughed. "Naow," she replied, "I was very early this mornin'!" She stood with her hand on the knob of the door. "If you want anythink else," she said, "just 'oller down, the stairs for it. An' you needn't 'urry to get up.
For nearly ten years Oller held the presidency of the divine senate; but at last the gods pitied the horrible exile of Odin, and thought that he had now been punished heavily enough; so he exchanged his foul and unsightly estate for his ancient splendour; for the lapse of time had now wiped out the brand of his earlier disgrace.
"Oh, it aren't the disapp'intment, Peter I found one corp', an' that's enough, I suppose, for an aged man like me no, it aren't that it's findin' ye eatin' your breakfus' just as if theer 'ad 'adn't been no storm no, nor yet no devil, wi' 'orns an' a tail, a-runnin' up an' down in the 'Oller 'ere, an' a-roarin' an' a-bellerin', as John Pringle said, last night."
"And you say you have heard it too, Simon?" said I. "Ay," nodded the Innkeeper; "I went down into th' 'Oller one evenin' 'bout six months ago, wi' Black Jarge, for we 'ad a mind to knock th' owd place to pieces, and get rid o' the ghost that way. Well, Jarge ups wi' 'is 'ammer, and down comes the rotten old door wi' a crash.
He slept in a good defensible position at the extremity of the rocky point that runs out to the Canadian Fall, and in the night he woke in panic terror and fired his gun. But it was nothing. He slept no more that night. In the morning he became curiously concerned for the vanished man, and hunted for him as one might for an erring brother. "If I knew some German," he said, "I'd 'oller.
Bill, as I say, was a merry sort, always ready wi' a joke, and that's apt to get a man friends, and they searched for 'im 'igh and low, but neither 'ide nor 'air o' poor Bill did they find. At last, one evenin' I 'appened to pass the big oak the 'oller oak, and mindin' Bill's words, thinks I 'ere's to see if 'tis empty as Bill said.
They 'eard me, it seems, and pulled round for me, but it was an hour before they found me, and my strength was nigh to gone. I couldn't 'oller no more, and was about giving up. But they picked up the cook, and he told 'em he knowed it was Mr. Brown's voice, and begged 'em to keep on.
'No, sir, answered Towler, briskly. 'Is it 'oller? 'Of course it's hollow. Surely your eye tells you that. 'Yes, sir; but there's the hot-water pipes inside and there's no getting at it, except for a plumber. 'Nonsense, said Mr.
Besides, I was spending my breath, when I rose on a sea, in 'ollering, and you can't swim and 'oller. So I tried a trick I learned, when a boy, on the Cornish coast, where I was born, Sir; it's one worth knowing. I doubled back my feet hunder me till my 'eels come to the small of my back, and I could float as long as I wanted to, and, when I rose on a wave, 'oller.
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