The child goes, and the same thing happens. She returns, saying--

"Yes, mother! I have seen a ghost."

M. Nonsense, child! we will take a candle, and all go together to

search for it. The mother picks up a twig for a candle, and they

set off. When they come near to the ghost, she appears from her

hiding-place, mother and children rush away in different directions;

the ghost chases them until she has caught one, who in her turn

becomes ghost.

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