TRUE STORY OF A GHOST.—HOW TWO YOUNG PERSONS FLED FROM HIM.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 474, 18 July 1871, Page 2

TRUE STORY OF A GHOST.—HOW TWO YOUNG PERSONS FLED FROM HIM.

QrROM TtlE " MANCHESTEB (N.H.) 3IIEHOE, NOT. IITH.] Two Portsmouth lovers one evening recently seated themselves on a stone by the roadside, near a cemetery, and, oblivious of the flight of time, remained there till the sound of the ©Id North clock striking midnight recalled them to their sensed. Afc that moment a terrible apparitinn presented itself from the neighbouring burial-ground—the tall shadowy figure of a human being—a man, with gleaming eyes and hair on end, clothed in spotless white, with ghastly countenance, and glided noiselessly over the frosted ground. The shade approacHed within a few yards of the lovers, and in sepulchral tone demanded, " What are you two fools doing here ?" adding in a stern and warning roice, "You'd better be getting home!" The ghost then immediately disappeared, and the lovers made better time in obeying the warning than ever did Dexter or Lady Thorn on the racecourse, and they don't walk near the graveyard after dark any more. It may be proper to add that the Chronicle knows a gentleman who resides near the cemetery where the ghost lives, and who, on the night in question, hearing a noise in his garden, arose from his bed, and, arrayed only in slippers and a long white "garment," proceeded to drive away a marauding cow tbat was raiding on his pet cabbages. Having driven her far enough, he made a short cut. home through the graveyard, and happening to see two young folks sitting on a stone by the roadside, in the chilling night air, he forgot his costume and approached to offer them some good advice, which they at once took. This was about midnight, but the gentleman in question did not see the ghost; he has no desire, however, to throw discredit on the statements of those who did see him.