THE GHOST IN THE CAP'N BROWN HOUSE.
OW, Sam, tell us certain true, is there any such things as ghosts?”
“Be there ghosts?” said Sam, immediately translating into his vernacular grammar: “wal, now, that are's jest the question, ye see.”
“Well, grandma thinks there are, and Aunt Lois thinks it's all nonsense. Why, Aunt Lois don't even believe the stories in Cotton Mather's 'Magnalia.'”
“Wanter know?” said Sam, with a tone of slow, languid meditation.