Lordy!
Yes, they do. I ve always heard that.
Tom, I don t like to fool around much where there s dead people. A
body s bound to get into trouble with em, sure.
I don t like to stir em up, either. S pose this one here was to stick
his skull out and say something!
Don t Tom! It s awful.
Well, it just is. Huck, I don t feel comfortable a bit.
Say, Tom, let s give this place up, and try somewheres else.
All right, I reckon we better.
What ll it be?
Tom considered awhile; and then said:
The ha nted house. That s it!
Blame it, I don t like ha nted houses, Tom. Why, they re a dern sight
worse n dead people. Dead people might talk, maybe, but they don t come
sliding around in a shroud, when you ain t noticing, and peep over your
shoulder all of a sudden and grit their teeth, the way a ghost does. I
couldn t stand such a thing as that, Tom nobody could.
Yes, but, Huck, ghosts don t travel around only at night. They won t
hender us from digging there in the daytime.
Well, that s so. But you know mighty well people don t go about that
ha nted house in the day nor the night.
Well, that s mostly because they don t like to go where a man s been
murdered, anyway but nothing s ever been seen around that house except
in the night just some blue lights slipping by the windows no regular
ghosts.
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