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GHOSTESES[1]

Midnight in an Ultra-Canal Pension.

You not know vat be dat noise of foots up de stair. Dat be de ole man vat die in my house ago ten year.

I see him now in my t'ought, 'sleep in ze berceuse; afraid to go to his room for cause of vat you call farfadet — goblin and ghosteses.

He vas very, very old, and he see always of tings vat not exist. He be much tor-

  1. Item, August 18, 1880.