| Show the haunted schoolhouse school hous house hi A i THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GHOSTLY aa BOY DOY ETC t i 1 q I froli from a letier from sloin miss aliss luc lucy A i perkins the tho teacher of the school house bouse at newburyport mass that has been haunted or spiritualized pirl spi ritualized tor for borne me weeks the account you send me toe is true with a few exceptions when I 1 first saw the tilo boy he was neatly attired in a brown suit of clothes trimmed with braid and buttons of the same color when I 1 reached forward to grasp him ho he seemed not like the boy but vapory or as I 1 can only describe it like a it thin cloud scudding studding scud ding across the room still he seemed to have the boy MA fonny I 1 reports from front some of the E boston papers say I 1 fainted such is not tig case I 1 knew where I 1 was and what I 1 was avas about just as well avell asi khow I 1 al am writing 1 onedas one day I 1 sent a boy out to liang hang up the brushes etc he was avas out about five minutes after lie he had taken bis his seat three raps came on the tho door of the room where the brushes were hung he said sald 3 11 Miss perkins can I 1 go out and se see c chols there therom Pr r told him I 1 ves ees yes fes and leave the schoolroom school room ar door open he diaso did so and when lie opened the brush room door 1 I sat where I 1 could see all this every one of the brushes br both long and short han falling off the nails where they weichung were hung some struck him in fit the therace th enace eface face some on the tho d ders ers 2 and the broom directly oil on the top told 6 nils fal head bead tile the dustpan dust pan han ban hanging gi gona sona on a nail nall at some distance tance above the brush brushes esq came n toi the floor with a vengeance ca it then stood on its handle hafid lg tilen oi on tile the bottom edge and continued on so til till I 1 ii it entered the tho schoolroom school room and then tilen it was placed aa nicely against the parti partition tlona tiona as if I 1 had done it Iny myself self belf justas as id raise ralso the tho venti latoi lator a black blaek ball bail like ilke a cannon ball bali would begin to roll rol I 1 around the attle attie and make such a noise I 1 would be obliged to lower tile the ventilator ti one day the tiie room was as quiet ils lis as it could possibly be and once some tome one in the attic called out dadie dadio pike dadie thought I 1 spoke and said i Wha tIm I 1 said to him ii can olt oui you oil say your lesson since the boy affair took place the tiie attic has been fastened up locks and kei are of no use however for thefil theril theres th emeis ereis Is as much walking up ur stairs and sometimes the hammering and i once in 1 a while sounds as of some one walking will come dowl dowd tiie tile the attic wa way ya go across the tile e n t r y and open the tile outside door anan one perhaps ten minutes is quiet lilet asin agin again the tile door wilf will open and lie she 1 or it will wiil go up lip stairs 7 lam iam am nota notta spirit balise liali sst crit flit never iver ever attended a sitting in av llad anything to do with a person of that belief and never manifestations why any think thin bf the tilo sort should take place cheri lam iam am is more that I 1 call can ac coun counti tJ jials he be publican E |
