SOME WEIRD YARNS.

NZ Truth, Issue 69, 13 October 1906, Page 7

SOME WEIRD YARNS.

The g r i m p|d sexton, who lives Within a filled-up suburban cemetery, to watch that no thieves .run/ away with the tombstones, and to chase body-snatchers off tho premises, tells some-, weird yarns about young couples, who sneak m to have a quiefc spoon above the bones of the departed. "It's no use.'Mw : growled one day, >I can>{ . keep WnSff beg^ rs " out - I mended tho bloom* fence all round, but it only seems to make /em more eager to climb over the xalrapjj v Last night just as I was turnin' m dears' a blood-curdlin' scream, and races down to find a girl with 'er shoe caught m ther top of the fence, and 'anginf 'ea3 downwards, while a young bloke was trying to lift 'er clear, and keep 'er clothes from sniotherin er at- the same time. Lots of the girls slip like that; just as they gete on the top of tho palins-fcheir duds trip em as they be. goin' to jump. Sometimes I takes a walk around late at night and sees a flutter of white clothes and 'ears kisses m the dark places among the graves One night 1 comes across a bloke an' eirl with a bottle of beer an' a packet of bis^ kits, avmg a banquet on one of tho tombstones, blow me, that just beat the band I" It. evidently takes more than the fear of ghosts and ; an old sexton to keep the boys and girls out of a ifciet nook, when they wander arm m arm on starlit nights Making love m a gloomy,. haunted-lookine graveyard is a queer study of the quick and the dead though.