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spirit in Below And On Top and Other Stories

t seemed very much astonished, and looked at them for some time as if confronted with a difficult problem. Meanwhile, Dick was thirsting for information. "Why d' you stay down here alwiz?" he asked. "Gotter!" answered the ghost briefly. "But why?" persisted the mortal. This was another problem for…

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2311
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Project Gutenberg Australia
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Below And On Top and Other Stories; Edward Dyson
Published
1898
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
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spirit
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Federation Era
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Australia (Australia): B
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t seemed very much astonished, and looked at them for some time as if confronted with a difficult problem. Meanwhile, Dick was thirsting for information. "Why d' you stay down here alwiz?" he asked. "Gotter!" answered the ghost briefly. "But why?" persisted the mortal. This was another problem for the ghost, and he gave it due consideration. Evidently Sim's ghost was a spirit of very limited mental resource. The explanation was a long time coming. At length he said: "It's like this, yer see: I mus' stay till someone dies what cares for me, an' then the spirit of the one what's dead will come an' take me away." This was an.

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