The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 103: what you’re looking at

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96 The Baby Ghost. ghosts. They are airy and keep such late hours. Still, every one who saw this particular spirit had a sort of a kindly feeling for it, because it was a baby ghost. Peo- ple would rent the house, stay a night or two, and see a baby in airy night clothes creeping about and moaning dismally. Them they would leave. They never got angry at the ghost, but they did at the landlord (who was an Irishman), for not telling them that the place was rented already. As to the spectral baby, they only felt sorry for it. Still, they would not stay in the house. The family under whose reign the ghost left the house was named Otto—a good old German name such as I love to hear. They had been in the house a week before they saw the ghost, for it had been ill with colic and had to Stay in bed. But when it did appear, it created a sensation. Mrs. Otto was for leaving at once. She said that she was not a proud woman, but that she was exclusive. She did not mind treating even a beggar politely, but when | it came to receiving people in her bed chamber she was compelled to be exclusive and she drew the line on ghosts. Besides, she added, she did not need a baby chost, for she had several young infants already. This caused a parley. The cook wept when she heard of the manifestation, and said that the poor thing ought to be treated kindly, for no doubt it had died unbaptized and so was compelled “to walk.” ° But then the ghost did not pass its nights in her alae room. Gomicbook (Eo)