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fiery face that most scart yer inter fits—wal, that's the wurst uv all; why, it's nuthin' but fox-fire, that ye can see in most any old rotten stump hereabouts. Now, jest pick up yer fish an' help me find my cow or I'll tell everybody down ter the village how three smart young chaps got scart out uv a year's growth by an old birch stump."
We boys hunted up the fish we had left in our fright and meekly followed the deacon. He promised not to tell the story, but it was too good to keep, and for many months after three young men were haunted by the story of "that awful ghost."
