The black and gold [serial] . birth-day and the entire family were in the library,toasting marshmallows, before a roaring logfire. Grandfather always gave the childrenthe privilege of choosing the story on theirbirthday, so he said: 4Well, Billie, what kind of a story do you choose,fairy story, war story, or ghost story? Oh, Grandfather, Ive been thinking all day and Iwant a ghost story, a true ghost story. My! my! I have one in mind this minute and it istrue all right. Hurry and finish your marshmallows be-fore I begin. The children were soon ready and took their placesaround Grandfather. Lit
The black and gold [serial] . birth-day and the entire family were in the library,toasting marshmallows, before a roaring logfire. Grandfather always gave the childrenthe privilege of choosing the story on theirbirthday, so he said: 4Well, Billie, what kind of a story do you choose,fairy story, war story, or ghost story? Oh, Grandfather, Ive been thinking all day and Iwant a ghost story, a true ghost story. My! my! I have one in mind this minute and it istrue all right. Hurry and finish your marshmallows be-fore I begin. The children were soon ready and took their placesaround Grandfather. Little Ellen sat on his lap, Mary andEdith on each side and William, Henry and John on thefloor at his feet. When I was young, boys didnt get to travel verymuch; so when Jim Longs father wanted him to go tolook at a place about seventy-five miles from home, whichhe was thinking of buying, I envied him with all my and I were chums. He asked father to let me go withhim. He said that we could go in the two horse buggy and. 6 THE BLACK AND GOLD leave the driver at home. Father hesitated, but when hesaw that I was so anxious to go, he consented. We started on our journey, one fine morning, and feltas big as yon please with the thought of traveling so faralone. We saw many curious notices, tacked on trees nearthe road. We noticed one especially, which read : Fifty dollars reward for a white sow with six littlepigs. Finder please come to Squire Holt for reward. June16, 1859. Fifty dollars was a large sum of money at that timeand I was just thinking how proud I would be if we couldget the reward, when Jim broke in on my thoughts by say-ing: If we could run up on that old sow, we would go homefeeling as rich as Croesus, wouldnt we? Sure. We would give a big candy pulling and an oldVirginia breakdown to celebrate our good luck, I answer-ed. We had gone a long way without seeing a singlehouse, and I began to wonder if we had reached an uncivil-ized part of the country, when we saw
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