Excerpt: ...Irishman, with a long pole, which he was waving triumphantly in the air. He bowed as we approached. "'This, young ladies, ' he said, 'is the original long pole spoken of at the breakfast-table. With this I am about to stir up and bring forth for your inspection the living and identical ghost whose snoring disturbed your repose last night.' "The little Irishman's jokes reassured me. I guessed that he had found some clue to our mysterious noise; but with Fatima it was otherwise. She had been too deeply frightened ...
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Excerpt: ...Irishman, with a long pole, which he was waving triumphantly in the air. He bowed as we approached. "'This, young ladies, ' he said, 'is the original long pole spoken of at the breakfast-table. With this I am about to stir up and bring forth for your inspection the living and identical ghost whose snoring disturbed your repose last night.' "The little Irishman's jokes reassured me. I guessed that he had found some clue to our mysterious noise; but with Fatima it was otherwise. She had been too deeply frightened to recover so easily. She clung tremblingly to me, as I was following him, and whispered 'I'd rather not.' "On her behalf I summoned courage to remonstrate. "'If you please, sir, ' I said, 'Fatima would rather not; and, if you please, don't tease us any more.' "The young lady added her entreaties, but they were not needed. The 129 good-natured little gentleman no sooner saw Fatima's real distress than he lowered his pole, and sank upon his knees on the grass, with a face of genuine penitence. "'I am so sorry I've been tormenting you so!' he exclaimed. 'I forgot you were really frightened, and you see I knew it wasn't a ghost.' "'I heard it, ' murmured Fatima resolutely, with her eyes half shut. "'So did I, ' said the Irishman, gaily; 'I've heard it dozens of times. It's the owls.' "We both exclaimed. "'Ah!' he said, comically, 'I see you don't believe me! That's what comes of telling so many small fibs. But it's true, I assure you. (And the brown eyes did look particularly truthful.) Barn-door owls do make a noise that is very like the snoring of an old man. And there are some young ones who live in the spout at the corner of the wall of your room. They're snoring and scrambling in and out of that spout all night.' "It was quite true, Ida, as we found, when Fatima was at last persuaded to visit the corner where the rooms had been pulled down, and where, decorated with ivy, the old spout formed a home for the snoring owls. By the aid of the long...
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