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1895
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ghost in The Moving Finger

easts--the watch he shoots on sight." "What's comin' anigh 'em?" asked the old woman scornfully. "There's me an' th' old man an' the girl here, an' nary a livin' thing else for miles. They do say," she added, dropping her voice, "the place is haunted. Jackson of Noogabbin was along here a month bac…

Record ID
2,288
Year
1,895
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
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Record ID
2288
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
The Moving Finger; Mary Gaunt
Published
1895
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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easts--the watch he shoots on sight." "What's comin' anigh 'em?" asked the old woman scornfully. "There's me an' th' old man an' the girl here, an' nary a livin' thing else for miles. They do say," she added, dropping her voice, "the place is haunted. Jackson of Noogabbin was along here a month back, and he told me how the cattle broke camp all along o' the ghost. He seed 'un wi' his own eyes, a great white thing on a trottin' cob it was. Clean through the camp it rode moanin', moanin', an' the cattle just broke like mad." "Oh, yes--I dessay," said the man, "and when them cattle were mustered, there was a matter o' fifty head.

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