Sound of water dripping on dinner pail thought to be ghost using pick in mine

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Sound of water dripping on dinner pail thought to be ghost using pick in mine.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Things thought to be devils, ghosts, etc. · view the constellation · filed as J1782.2.1

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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

U.S.Baughman.

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Filed under Dropping dough thought to be a ghost. It drops on the floor and the man thinks the place is haunted.

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