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MORE GHOST STORIES
A SCHOOL STORY
Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. “At our school,” said A., “we had a ghost's footmark on the staircase. What was it like? Oh, very unconvincing. Just the shape of a shoe, with a square toe, if I remember right. The staircase was a stone one. I never heard any story about the thing. That seems odd, when you come to think of it. Why didn't somebody invent one, I wonder?”
“You never can tell with little boys. They have a mythology of their own. There's a subject for you, by the way—‘The Folklore of Private Schools.’”
“Yes; the crop is rather scanty, though. I
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