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after her. JI pulled her in all I knew how, and no 
mistake ; but it was no use, and I felt the front wheels 
strike, lift, and go over him, and then the hind 
wheels, but I couldn’t stop her. That was a heavy 
load, and enough to crush any one, and as soon as I 
could fetch the mare down—for she had started to 
run—I jumped out quick enough then, you may bet 
your life. I tied her up to the fence, although she 
was still so uneasy I daresen’t hardly leave her, and 
hurried back to see if I could do anything for Jackey. 
Would you believe it, there was nothing there! I 
tell you I felt the wagon go over him, and what’s 
more, I looked down as I passed and saw his clothes 
and his hair straggling out over the snow, for he had 
no hat on; though I noticed at the time that I did't 
see any flesh, but supposed his face was turned from 
me. There was no rise in the ground and not a 
cloud in the sky ; the moon was nearly full, and there 
wasn’t any man, and never had been any man there ; 
but whatever there was, the mare saw it as plain as 
Lad.” 
‘“‘ Now let’s turn in,” said a sleepy individual, who 
had first been nodding over Bill’s statement of pub- 
lic wrongs, and had taken several short naps in the 
course of his ghost story ; ‘‘ and as there was some- 
thing said yesterday about a smoke driving away 
mosquitoes, for heaven’s sake let’s make a big one; 
the infernal pests kept me awake all last night.” 
This was excellent advice, and not only was an 
entire newspaper consumed in our common sleeping 
apartment, but a quantity of powder was squibbed 
