whistle. I tried to break up the superstition or feeling I had and 
     
     overcome the fear, but it never altogether left me. In a state of men- 
     
     tal or physical exhaustion or other overwrought conditions, one may 
     
     see, or imagine things that are not substantial in fact, or cannot be 
     
     seen or explained under normal conditions. A man in delirium tre- 
     
     mens sees terrible and unnatural things: false images or illusions, mir- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ages. 
     
     The Man Who Shot the Ghost 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sometimes people played jokes or tricks by dressing up in white 
     
     and feigning themselves ghosts. Some mistook natural objects for 
     
     ghosts or supposed they were ghosts. There was a story about a 
     
     haunted house, where people saw ghosts; No one would stay in it at 
     
     night. A young man laid a wager, or bet, that he would stay in it a 
     
     night. He took his revolver to bed with him. It was a clear night, 
     
     so he could see about the room. After getting into bed he took a 
     
     loo-k at the foot of the bed; he saw something white peeping up at his 
     
     feet; every time he looked he saw it; this made him nervous, but he 
     
     did not get upto investigate what it was. He called to it and. threat- 
     
     ened to shoot. He thought it might be some one playing a joke; there 
     
     was no response. The next time he looked it appeared again, and he 
     
     fired at it. Instantly he felt a keen pain in his toe. Every time he 
     
     lifted his head his foot stuck up; that was the ghost he fired at. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Ghost that Stood My Bed on End 
     
    
   
   
    
     I was away from home one time helping a man who was a crip- 
     
     ple. He and his sister kept the house. The parents had recently 
     
     died. The house was large and the upstairs was not occupied; it was 
     
     used as a storeroom, where, for years, all kinds of old things were 
     
     put away. As there was a gang working at the threshing, I was put 
     
     to sleep in a single bed in this place. The mice and rats were plenti- 
     
     ful. Soon as the lights were put out, and there was quietude, they be- 
     
     gan to move about. In the loneliness of the place, and with my mind 
     
     full of ghost stories. I got very nervous, but I would not give in to the 
     
     feeling. I was tired and after a while I dozed to sleep; I soon woke 
     
     up with a start and felt the bed standing on end, so that I was on my 
     
     feet with the bed at my back. It settled back again and I held on un- 
     
    
   
   
    
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