Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-19 | Page 6 | The Delusion of Ghosts

the delusion of ghosts sometimes when I 1 got to do errands at n an th moon Is all dark an th aint any light an th wind when it blows mak a schery sound an everything seems awful still all around sometimes when a hoot owl goes woo oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 my legs feel so funny all goose flesh too an maybe im startled when I 1 hear it call but I 1 ain t a bit I 1 m thee nervous that s all me an joe simpson auz walka one night A past th old graveyard an saw some thin white et looked like a ghost right in th road an my joe auz ecaire cuz he said et he knowel j I 1 it auz birely a ghost an I 1 wl en ou wissel ou scare em a all that it auz a great big white cow an it thes balked awa an I 1 no n 11 it ww 1 M day ti cuz I 1 don t b aleve in ghosts an id thes as aleve go A past any graveyard an walk awful slow an wissel an sl on th top of th fence cuz th aint any ghosts if you got any sense an when we saw that big white thing by th road et joe was so of I 1 kuzn t I 1 knowel all th time it s no ghost I 1 auz nervous I 1 what it kuzn t but not what it wu J W foley