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SKULL THAT HOPPEDGhost Story of a Poor Esquimau Who Came A-Courting Too Late.Here's a ghost story out of the ordinary that was told by tne young woman to whom It happened. She Is a young person not given to romancing and she says she still has, and can produce, the corpus delicti. Perhaps there's a little love tragedy in It, too, because it was sad. If he really liked the lady, that he should have met her so late in his career.This young woman's brother went somewhere up along the northerly coast of Greenland on a government expedition and when he came hack he brought his sister an Esquimau skull which she put on her mantel piece. It I was one of those mantel pieces wth a rail about a half an inch high all around it.One alternoon the girl was reading by the window in lu r room when sh*» heard a thump and looked up just in time to see the skull roll half way across the rom toward her. She thought it was strange that the thine should have rolled off the mantel piece because of the railing, hut sin picked it up and put it hack without thinking any more about it.A night or two later, after she had been in bed and asleep for several hours, she was awakened by another thump. She sat up in bed and listened, and bump! hump! came several'more thumps, not so loud, hut just like something solid hopping across the floor.It thumped all the way from the mantelpiece imlil it get under the head ol her bed. and tin re it stopped. Sin- couldn't imagine- what it was. and after listening a little longer and hear ing nothing else she lay down and wen to sleep again.She had forgotten all about the disturbance in the morning and got up and went down to breakfast without noticing anything out of the way.When site came hack to her room the chambermaid was there with the skull in her hand.Miss Esther, isn’t it funny?” said ! the maid. “Here I've found this skull under the head of your bed.”Then the young woman remembered the noise of the night before and the way the thing had tumbled off the mantel-piece and rolled toward her several days before, and she thought itwas strange, too. Falter in the morning she told her brother who had given her the skull about her exp» rienees.Well, that's rather queer.” said tho brother. That skull was given to mo by a sailor who said tie wouldn’t have anything more to do with it bocauso he couldn't keep it from hopping across his room.”
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The Springfield Herald
Springfield, Colorado, US
Fri, Mar 28, 1902
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