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Show RACE WAS NOT OVER Sam Had No' Idea of Settling Down Permanently with Ghost. A well known local character fs Sam Wellington, a colored man, . known as tho "duke." Tho duke is a fine cook, and often accompanies camping parties. I Last fall a party -of young men Sam was with decided to scare him with an apparition. Leaving tho tent la his chargo one night, on a pro-tense pro-tense of going to the village, ono of tho party qulotly returned onvoloped from head to foot in a sheet with faco I well covered with flour. He took his stand in .the doorway. Suddenly Sam looked up, and, emitting ono horrible yell, dovo through tho rear of tho tent and wont down tho road at a terrific ter-rific pace. The ghost pursued. After about a mile of running tho duko was roadyto drop, and sat down on n log, "perspiring freely. Tho ghost came up and sat down on the same log, putting and blowing., Absolute qulat celedVor a minute, and then the ghost remarked in a dignified dig-nified voico: "We ent some, didn't we?"' Sam, whoso teeth were chattering like castanets, replied: "Yes, wo did go somo, an' you Jess wait till Ah gets mah hreff an' we'll go somo moro." Boston Herald. |