The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories

'WARN'T YOU-UNS APOLOGIZIN' TER ME FUR NOT BEIN' A NEPHEW?'
And Other Stories
BY CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK
AUTHOR OF IN THE 'STRANGER PEOPLE'S' COUNTRY ETC. ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1895
Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Across the narrow gorge the little foot-bridge stretched—a brace of logs, the upper surface hewn, and a slight hand-rail formed of a cedar pole. A flimsy structure, one might think, looking down at the dark and rocky depths beneath, through which flowed the mountain stream, swift and strong, but it was doubtless substantial enough for all ordinary usage, and certainly sufficient for the imponderable and elusive travellers who by common report frequented it.
We ain't likely ter meet nobody. Few folks kem this way nowadays, 'thout it air jes' ter ford the creek down along hyar a piece, sence harnts an' sech onlikely critters hev been viewed a-crossin' the foot-bredge. An' it hev got the name o' bein' toler'ble onlucky, too, said Roxby.