1 6 EYE SPY 
ghostly light that flickered about the eaves of a 
certain old ruin of a house in the neighborhood, 
and also above the well close by in the weedy 
waste of the former door-yard. 
The light was seen by many for several con- 
secutive nights. It fairly glowed into a halo up 
from the wooden curb which surmounted the well, 
where it was viewed at a safe distance with bated 
breath by a curious crowd of villagers, not one of 
whom would have dared to steal up and surprise 
the innocent spook in its haunt doubtless a mass 
of fox-fire which had found its brief, congenial 
home in the decaying boards within the tottering 
well-curb. Of course the house was "haunted" 
for evermore, and rustic tradition for a whole 
generation was rich in fabulous tales of the 
" haunted well," and there was serious talk of 
unearthing the nameless mystery which lay at 
the bottom of it. 
A certain saw-mill was also tenanted by a simi- 
lar luminous ghost one night after a heavy rain, 
but the shape of the spook in this case was so 
peculiar, and so exactly corresponded with the 
parallel cross-boxes of the old broken water-wheel, 
that it was considered harmless. 
But it is scarcely to be wondered at that a phe- 
nomenon so startling and inexplicable to the rustic 
mind should be associated with the supernatural. 
One's first experience with fox-fire, especially if 
