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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (17817)	2/28/1998 11:42:00 AM
From: MSB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Do you believe in ghosts? I kiped the following from the AR-Demo Gazette: The Ghost of Adulie Blair A storm was coming one night after supper in Greenbrier. Annie Brakebill was getting ready for bed along with her older sister, Mamie, as lightning flashed and raindrops began to fall. The two girls climbed into the bed they shared, closing their eyes for a night's rest, but Annie was scared of the breaking storm. She tossed and turned, trying to go to sleep . The little house they lived in was warmed by the fire not far from the girl's bed, but the cold rain falling was trying its best to invade the coziness. Annie looked toward the fire as she tried to calm herself but in the light of the fire she saw a sight that discomforted her all the more. There in the rocking chair next to her bed sat Adulie Blair, wearing a black dress. Adulie was an overweight neighbor girl whom Annie and Mamie played with on occasion--though neither one liked her much. Annie couldn't imagine what Adulie was doing in their house this time of night. It made her nervous, her being there like that. As Annie watched, Adulie leaned forward in the chair and fell over onto the bed where Annie lay. Thoroughly frightened by what she saw, Annie pulled the covers up over her head and tightly closed her eyes. A few minutes latter, Annie heard someone come up onto the porch and knock on the door. She heard her papa open the door to Mr. Blair and the two men started talking. A minute or so later her papa came into the room and shook the girls awake, telling them they had to get up and get dressed because they were all needed at the Blairs' house. Adulie had died, and Mrs. Blair needed momma's help. So the Brakebill family loaded up into the wagon on the cold, stormy night and made their way to the Blair farmhouse. The girls watched as Mrs. Blair and their mother washed and cared for Adulie's naked body. Then Mrs. Blair went to the cedar chest and got out a new, black dress to put on Adulie. The two women pulled the dress over her, setting her body in the rocking chair next to the bed to button and arrange the dress on her. As they finished, Adulie's body rocked forward and pitched onto the bed--exactly as Annie had seen in her own room only a short time before. Submitted by Rev. P.F.W., Little Rock as told to him by A.E.W. of Conway.