The Haunted House
THE HAUNTED HOUSE. THE EXTEA CHUISTMAS NUMBER OP ALL THE YEAH ROUND. CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS. cosTAiBiKa inz AMOTTST OF TWO OHDINABT NTJMBEES. CHRISTMAS, 1859, 4! r The Morttils in the House . The Gboit in the Cupboard &oom rTlio Gliost in tbe Clock Hooqt . Tho Ghost in Master B.'a Room . riTbe OltDst in the Double Room The Ghost in the Garden Room . Pmio Ghost in the Picturo Boom The Ghost in ths Corner Boom long. Ll addition to this unreasonable conduct THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSE. (which was only to he expected of him), he had fsDEE none of the accredited ghostly ctr- had a pencil and a pocket-book, and had been istauces, and environed by none of the con- perpetually listening and taking notes. It liad ap bional ghostly surroundings, did I first make peared to mc that these aggravating notes related dntance witb the honse which is the subject to the joUsand bumps of the carriage, and I should Christmas piece. I saw it in the day- have resigned myself to his taking them, under vith the sun upon it. There was no a general supposition that he was in the civU- . no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful eiigiueering way of life, if he had not sat staring unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to straight over my head whenever he listened. He liten its elTeet. More than that: I had come was a goggle-eyed gentleman of a perplexctl direct from a railway station; it was not aspect, and his demeanour became unbearable. I than a mile distant from tho railway sta- It was a cold, dead moming (the snn not heing ^j and, a^ I stood outside the bouse, looking up jet), and when I had out-watclied the paling upoij^lic way I had come, 1 could see the light of the fires of the iron country, and the ' tram niiminj? smoothly along the em- curtain of heavy smoke that hung at once lent in the valley.
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