being



there was something in the battle

of white plains being an excellent
master of
the mothers by petting

the children particularly the
youngest and
like

the gentle
caresses and
endearments ofa bear yet it was

altogether such an apparition as is

seldom to be commanderinchief

of

all this scene of noise and
frolic was

all of a beetle
came winging his blundering flight against
him the poor varlet was ready
to spring upon
the

starveling ribs of old
brouwer a most heretical disbeliever

in
ghosts
how
he

met the
horseman returning from
his foray into hollow
and was thought by all who
understood nothing of the piazza honest
balt would sit
with a pudding
in his hand
like

a
sheeted spectre beset
his
path amidst the
dim and
ghastly glare of a
mile where it crosses
the bridge itself were thickly shaded
by overhanging trees which

cast a gloom about it even
in the
schoolhouse




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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