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Show SiTITnrnSEGHOST OF 'OCEAN-BORN MARY' XV iLLAlyililAO O 1 l-L-A-1 m , ..Let me name this child." he said. I a cutlass through his throat "Let me name this child," he said, "and you and your company shall be free." Thus "Ocean-Born Mary" was christened. And years later when she had grown to be six feet tall and had a family of strapping sons, the pirate captain came to live with her. Somewhere near the house, the legends say, the pirate buried $7 000 000 worth of gold bars before his body was found in the meadow- a cutlass through his throat The present occupants of the house, L. M. A. Roy and his mother, Flora, say Mary is a "definite presence." Besides watching the treasure, Mary guards the family. They say she already has prevented pre-vented two fires by her timely noise warnings and that during the 1938 hurricane Mary hovered over Roy. protecting him while he worked and on his way into the house. an -Ocean-Born Mary," steps from what the woman hides The story begins in 1720, when a -roup of Scotch-Irish immigrants group 01 Ronton by a pirate were stopped off Boston Dy v band. The brigands Vborn touched when he saw a new baby in her mother s arms. i" ,lHENNIKER, N. H. On , frosty id v; 'inter nights superstitious Henni-( Henni-( r residents believe the ghost of ByOcean-Born Mary," a pirate's pro-returns pro-returns to her people who live l'h now-and possibly to store ;'ay a little more treasure. ,i Legends of buried treasure are , tf '.ev'vcd whenever a farmer "sees" ' 1 Our white horses gallop down a nar-y. nar-y. dirt road and pull up by a T :;-..adside well. Then a six-foot worn- |