Humorous Ghost StoriesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 - 431 strán (strany) CONTENTS: Introduction: The Humorous Ghost The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde The Ghost-Extinguisher by Gelett Burgess "Dey Ain't No Ghosts" by Ellis Parker Butler The Transferred Ghost by Frank R. Stockton The Mummy's Foot by Théophile Gautier The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs Back from that Bourne by Anonymous The Ghost-Ship by Richard Middleton The Transplanted Ghost by Wallace Irwin The Last Ghost in Harmony by Nelson Lloyd The Ghost of Miser Brimpson by Eden Phillpotts The Haunted Photograph by Ruth McEnery Stuart The Ghost that Got the Button by Will Adams The Specter Bridegroom by Washington Irving The Specter of Tappington Compiled by Richard Barham In the Barn by Burges Johnson A Shady Plot by Elsie Brown The Lady and the Ghost by Rose Cecil O'Neill |
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Strana 363 - A serious, not to say anxious, expression was visible upon his good-humoured countenance, and his mouth was fast buttoning itself up for an incipient whistle, when little Flo, a tiny spaniel of the Blenheim breed, — the pet object of Miss Julia Simpkinson's affections, — bounced out from beneath a sofa, and began to bark at — his pantaloons. They were cleverly
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