Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life
with probably some grog on board, having parted from his boon companions, returned to them, appearing in a frightened condition, with a state- ment that he had seen the ghost of Fisher at the slip- panel leading into the paddock at Fisher's house, and that the appearance pointed to the paddock. The…
- Record ID
- 2,012
- Year
- 1,887
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 2012
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life; William Henry Suttor
- Published
- 1887
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- Fisher's Ghost
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Text Item
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with probably some grog on board, having parted from his boon companions, returned to them, appearing in a frightened condition, with a state- ment that he had seen the ghost of Fisher at the slip- panel leading into the paddock at Fisher's house, and that the appearance pointed to the paddock. The ghost was dressed in the ordinary everyday garments of the Fisher's Ghost. 15 period, in fact, in Fisher's clothes. There can be no doubt whatever that Fisher's body and clothes were at this very time under the ground and rapidly becoming in a very decomposed and unpresentable and (with regard to the clothes especially) very rotten.
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