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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Humorous Ghost Stories, by Dorothy Scarborough This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Humorous Ghost Stories Author: Dorothy Scarborough Release Date: October 18, 2008 [EBook #26950] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES *** Produced by David Edwards, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES SELECTED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, PH.D. LECTURER IN ENGLISH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF "THE SUPERNATURAL IN MODERN ENGLISH FICTION," "FUGITIVE VERSES," "FROM A SOUTHERN PORCH," ETC. COMPILER OF "FAMOUS MODERN GHOST STORIES" G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1921 COPYRIGHT, 1921 BY DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH _Printed in the United States of America_ To DR. AND MRS. JOHN T. HARRINGTON _Life flings miles and years between us, It is true,-- But brings never to me dearer Friends than you!_ The Humorous Ghost INTRODUCTION The humorous ghost is distinctly a modern character. In early literature wraiths took themselves very seriously, and insisted on a proper show of respectful fear on the part of those whom they honored by haunting. A mortal was expected to rise when a ghost entered the room, and in case he was slow about it, his spine gave notice of what etiquette demanded. In the event of outdoor apparition, if a man failed to bare his head in awe, the roots of his hair reminded him of his remissness. Woman has always had the advantage over man in such emergency, in that her locks, being long and pinned up, are less easily moved--which may explain the fact (if it be a fact!) that in fiction women have shown themselves more self-possessed in ghostly presence than men. Or possibly a woman knows that a masculine spook is, after all, only a man, and therefore may be charmed into helplessness, while the feminine can be seen through by another woma
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