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...ground to keep the path, when suddenly he stopped short and wrenched my arm violently. Startled, I raised my eyes. He was trembling like an aspen and pointing ahead. I followed the direction of his finger. What I saw I shall never forget. There, directly in front of us, straight across the path, was an enormous figure, all white, with outstretched arms that seemed ready to clasp us in their embrace. I was never a believer in ghosts, but then I had never met one face to face before; and coming upon this terrible presence at night in the woods...
...this mournful tale; a very sad chapter, and of course there's a woman in it. It was a melancholy day for this innocent, unsuspecting world of ours when a feminine foot first pattered its little, ill-omened imprint into its soil. Adam was going along very comfortably straight until Eve put in her appearance, egging him on to mischief, and brewing generally a peck of trouble. And in the same manner I was making really commendable progress, when the door opened, and in walked a young lady and young gentleman...
...plainer every moment. The last of the line of iron posts stood exactly in front of the staring, awestruck couple. Six times I had swept round it like the breath of the wind; now, for the seventh time, I was approaching it. I could no longer control my machine. Straight towards the post it rushed. I could not leap from it; I could not stop its awful impetus. A doomed man, I was hurled onward to my fate. I closed my eyes, and thought of Appleton Chapel. Crash!! and in an instant I struck in the middle of my back...
...CORRESPONDENTS.D. '83. In regard to your questions: "I. What is the record of P. Davin of the Carrick-on-Suir F. B. C., at the running high jump? 2. What is his height? 3. What is his weight in fair condition? 4. Does he run at the bar straight or diagonally?" We give the following answers, on the authority of the athletic editor of the Spirit: 1. 6 ft. 2 3/4 in.; 2. 5 ft. 11 3/4 in.; 3. 166 lbs.; 4. Perfectly straight...
...read no more, but with a shriek of "Vichy straight," fell senseless on the floor...