The Alleged Haunting of B—— House by Various
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was as of metal on wood, or _vice versâ_).
2. Trampling and banging in every part of the house, obvious and obscure, in cupboards and cistern holes. 3. (On the hypothesis of tricks from outside.) Beating on outside doors with shovels and pokers and wooden things, on the walls and windows accessible; banging and clattering in outside coal-cellars and in the sunk area round the house. (_N.B._--Beating on the front door handle with a wooden racket, was right in kind, but not nearly enough in degree.) Miss Moore, who was familiar with the noise, did it rather well by going into a coal-cellar (always locked at night, however) outside and throwing big lumps of coal, from a distance, into a big pail, but _it wasn't nearly loud enough_. 4. Finally the men climbed on to the roof, outside, while Miss Moore and I shut ourselves into the proper places. They clattered and walked and stamped and kicked and struck the slates, but _they couldn't make noise enough_. Then we had in the gardener they saw yesterday, and put him in the butler's room, and the four men made hideous rows as before. He was grateful and respectful, but contemptuous. _They couldn't make noise enough._ We went out at dusk, having sent Mr. MacP---- and Mr. C---- to pay a visit (as they had not been told of the brook scene), intending that the same trio as before should go to the copse. |
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