It has a real castle and a part of it is haunted, and the master doesn't like to live there--only comes once a year or so, for hunting--and the rabbits there are as thick as they can be and the river chuck full of fish, but no one can touch any game, or even take out one fish, or they would be punished." "Yes, Ellen it's hard, and all wrong, but we are wandering away from your ghosts, and you know I am going to take notes.

So begin." "Well, Miss, I was a sort of companion or maid to a blind lady in my own town.

I slept in a little room just across the landing from hers, so as to always be within reach of her.

I was just going to bed, when she called for me to come in and see if there was something in the room--something alive, she thought, that had been hopping, hopping all around her bed, and frightened her dreadfully, poor thing, for, you remember, she was stone blind, Miss, which made it worse.

So I hurried in and I shook the curtains, looked behind the bureau and under the bed, and tried everywhere for whatever might be hopping around, but could find nothing and heard not a sound.