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John Kendrick Bangs
THE WATER GHOST AND OTHERS
To Francis Sedgwick Bangs
CONTENTS
THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL
THE SPECTRE COOK OF BANGLETOP
THE SPECK ON THE LENS
A MIDNIGHT VISITOR
A QUICKSILVER CASSANDRA
THE GHOST CLUB
A PSYCHICAL PRANK
THE LITERARY REMAINS OF THOMAS BRAGDON
ILLUSTRATIONS
"'WELCOME TO BANGLETOP'" A DEPARTING COOK THE BARON'S BREAKFAST WAS NOT PAY-DAY TERWILLIGER TO THE RESCUE "COOK!" HE WHISPERED THE PRESENCE HAD ASSUMED SHAPE "'NO TALKERS,' RETORTED THE GHOST" THEY SHOOK HANDS AND PARTED THE H'EARL, OF MUGLEY "'TO ARIADNE, OF COURSE'" "A DUKE IS A DUKE THE WORLD OVER" BACK TO THE SPIRIT VALE "MARTYRS' NIGHT" "DO YOU HEAR THAT BOLT SLIDE?" THE VISITOR ARRIVES "I LOOKED UPON MY REFLECTION IN THE GLASS" THE RED TIE "NOT A CARD FELL" "'GRAB HOLD OF ME, BOYS'" "I MUST HAVE FAINTED" THE MIND-READING FEATS ON THE CLUB'S BUTLER "5010" "PEGGING SHOES LIKE A GENTLEMAN" 5010 BECOMES EXCITED "NO LESS A PERSON THAN HAWLEY HICKS" "'JUST WATCH ME'" NOAH AND DAVY CROCKETT SOLOMON AND DOCTOR JOHNSON MOZART TRIES HIS HAND AT THE BANJO WAITING FOR THE CRITICS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON THE GIFT OF THE SPOONS "'LET ME SHAAK DTHOT HAND'" "HE WAS IN AN UNUSUALLY EXUBERANT MOOD" ON A SPIRIT SHIP "MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE REALITY" GIUSEPPE ZOCCO "BUT FINALLY I OPENED THE BOX" "GAZING INTO THE FIRE WAS TOM BRAGDON" "'YOU GOIN' TO KEEP A DIARY?'"