15th October, 1858.
GHOST STORIES
AND
FAMILY LEGENDS.
ROUND THE FIRE.
FIRST EVENING.
"But there are no ghosts now," objected Mr. R.
"Quite the contrary," said I; "I have no doubt there is nobody in this circle who has not either had some experience of the sort in his own person, or been made a confidant of such experiences by friends whose word on any other subject he would feel it impossible to doubt."
After some discussion on the existence of ghosts and cognate subjects, it was agreed that each should relate a story, restricting himself to circumstances that had either happened to himself or had been told him by somebody fully entitled to confidence, who had undergone the experience.
We followed the order in which we were sitting, and Miss P. began as follows:—