A Ghost that did not" Fizz"

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 127, 23 April 1892, Page 4

A Ghost that did not " Fizz"

The London Spectator publishes a letter from " A t^alroway Man," who tells the following story :— A little knot of townsmen were wont to prolong their drinking-bour. and when there was no law closing publichouses at 11 p.m. in Scotland, these . seclerunts extended not seldom far on j into the morning hours. To try to | check the doings of the topers on one i occasion at the hour when the couple ! of canoles had nearly expended (there was no gas in. our town in those days) a spectre of human build, but robed in white and carrying a lantern under the enveloping sheet so as to produce a diffused red light, stalked solemnly into the gloomy room, and | stepped in what was hopfid would be a terror-stricken silence. As grayoly as if he rose to meet some moiirner, one of the tipsy crew stood up on his ! feet, forming a bubble of saliva on his lip, he poised it on the tip of his middle finger, projecting it towards the supposed emissary of terror in a way that most boys understand and occasionally practise when in vuigart:st mood. !he swaying drunkard shot the moisture hard at the glimmering sheet and figure, with the one remark Scottice, " Ye're a gude while oot, or ye'd have fizzed." There is no use adding that the little plot was a failure.