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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer"

Why they're a dem sight worse'n dead people. Dead people might talk, maybe, but they don't come sliding around in a shroud, when you ain't noticing, and peep over your shoulder all of a sudden and grit their teeth, the way a ghost does. I couldn't stand such a thing as that, Tom- nobody could."


? ? ? ? "Yes, but Huck, ghosts don't travel around only at night. They won't hender us from digging there in the daytime."


? ? ? ? "Well that's so. But you know mighty well people don't go about that ha'nted house in the day nor the night."


? ? ? ? "Well, that's mostly because they don't like to go where a man's been murdered, anyway- but nothing's ever been seen around that house except in the night- just some blue lights slipping by the windows- no regular ghosts."


? ? ? ? "Well where you see one of them blue lights flickering around, Tom, you can bet there's a ghost mighty close behind it. It stands to reason. Becuz you know that they don't anybody but ghosts use 'em."


? ? ? ? "Yes, that's so. But anyway they don't come around in the daytime, so what's the use of our being afeared?"


? ? ? ? "Well, all right.


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