ective
force, to lie in wait at different places for the apparition. It was
gravely alleged that the ghost made its appearance in varied
attire--sometimes in black, sometimes in white, and occasionally with
the addition of horns. One dark night a cabman, driving through the
Grange, and looking about him with great fear, and trembling for the
appearance of this irrepressible "Spring-heel Jack," suddenly heard a
loud noise over his head, and the next instant something descended
with such force on his shoulders as to send his pipe flying over the
splashboard, and himself nearly after it.

The alarm excited in the weak-minded and ignorant can scarcely be
credited. We know of one case where a cab-driver, who was ordered to
go at an early hour in the morning to a house in the suburbs to convey
a lady and gentleman from an evening party, positively refused to go,
through sheer terror of encountering "Jack," as the ghost was named,
preferring rather to risk losing his situation. It is said that the
girls employed in factories in the vicinity of the Canal would not
venture to their work till it was fairly daylight, and even then they
went in a body. Several policemen asserted that they had seen the
ghost. The stories about the ghost created such an impression on the
minds of many young people residing within a wide radius of the
haunted district, that they would not venture out after dark.

Glasgow, as recently as 1878, had its ghost also, or supposed it had.
The residents in the Northern District of that city were thrown into a
state of excitement, hardly to be credited in enlightened times. One
night it was whispered that the school at the corner of Stirling
Street and Milton Street had become the abode of a horde of warlocks,
whose cantrips were equalled only by the antics cut by their
demoniacal ancestors in "Alloway's Auld Haunted Kirk." It was
seriously averred by dozens of persons that they had actually
witnessed the hobgoblins in the enjoyment of their fiendish fun. In a
brief space of time the whole neighbourhood turned out to see the
terrible visitants that had come among them. Frequently as many as
from four to six thousand people--the large majority of whom were
children in groups of threes and fours, clinging to each other's
hands, and evidently in mortal terror of being suddenly spirited away
no one knew where--assembled to catch a glimpse of the mysterious
cause of the commotion. To such a height did the excitem