ghost in Tales of the Austral Tropics
ould not for the life of him remember having seen it there before. There was certainly low tide in the whisky bottle, but he could not determine whether the bread and beef were in the same condition as before the stranger's visit. His spirits fell, however, when he found the unmistakably fresh trac…
- Record ID
- 1,849
- Year
- 1,893
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 1849
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- Tales of the Austral Tropics; Ernest Favenc
- Published
- 1893
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Northern Australia: B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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ould not for the life of him remember having seen it there before. There was certainly low tide in the whisky bottle, but he could not determine whether the bread and beef were in the same condition as before the stranger's visit. His spirits fell, however, when he found the unmistakably fresh tracks of a horse outside the verandah. But if his visitor was a ghost, how did he come to ride a horse that made tracks? There could be no error, as he had swept all around the hut since the two men met. This thought struck Sandy very hard, and he sat down to work it out. As a Highlander, Sandy was rather superstitious, but he had plenty of.
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