THE BANSHEE.
VISITS /GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
"Hitherto it has always been the special prerogative of ancient Irish, families to possess a banshee. • But the brand new vice-regal residence of, Mount View, is said to have been singled out for a similar distinction. That it has secured the services of a really good performer, a Dominion representative can testify. He stood in the main hall of Government. House yesterday afternoon,- and 'as the lively north-wester blustered round the chalet, a wail, which at midnight's witching hour could'not fail to chill the spine and freeze the the stoutesthearted citizen, arose among the rafters, and sobbed out piteously in a 'minor key, rising gradually into a piercing-shriek. The occupants of Government House, for the most part, wear a worried look on windy days on account of the perform-, ances of the banshee, and some of those on the premises have actually, had to change their,rooms to escape the hideous moaning which is jangling the nerves of the household staff. .Workmen have been engaged in-searching for the "banshee," and have "rubbered" the doors and,the windows as a' concession to the wind, but so for they. have not been able to check what is a very real nuisance. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 926, 20 September 1910, Page 4
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202THE BANSHEE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 926, 20 September 1910, Page 4
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