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THE HAMMERSMITH GHOSTS. *77
young lady of Hammersmith, with her companion. After
this second discovery, nothing of the kind was seen or
heard of in this quarter, excepting what has been re-
lated by Thomas Groom, a servant to Messrs. Burgess
and Winter, brewers.—-He, a stout able man, asserted for
a truth, what he related upon the trial, of being nearly
choaked by the rude caresses of one of the phantoms
which he met in the church-yard.—He did not keep his
bed, as it is reported in the newspapers, but he was seve-
ral days before he got the better of the fright.
An old proverb says, “ The third time generally pays
for allAccordingly, the next disturber of the peace,
made its appearance not in the church-yard, but lower
down, towards Beaver, Black Lion, and Plough and Har-
row Lanes, which served it as a retreat when pursued, from
the high road. A drummer belonging to the Chiswick
Volunteers, an inhabitant of Hammersmith, and a rat-
catcher by his profession, was one of the first that was
panic-struck by this new spectre.—The next was a clerk
to Mr. Cromwell the brewer, who thought he saw a super-
natural appearance about five o’clock one morning in
Plough and Harrow-lane, and was considerably alarmed.
The pretended spectre, on Thursday the 29th of Decem-
ber, made a more public appearance ; for as Girdler, the
watchman, came out of the house of Mrs. Samuel, No. 2,
Queen’s-place, adjoining Beaver-lane, an apprentice boy
belonging to Graham the shoemaker, ran across the road
towards him, dreadfully frightened, at what he supposed to
be a ghost ' In consequence of this, the watchman looking
towards the opposite side of the road, on the left hand of
the pump, was witness to an object all in white. Ap-
proaching the spot where it stood, he observed some per-
son divest himself of a sheet or tablecloth, he could not dis-
tinguish which, wrap it up under his coat, and run away.
Being
young lady of Hammersmith, with her companion. After
this second discovery, nothing of the kind was seen or
heard of in this quarter, excepting what has been re-
lated by Thomas Groom, a servant to Messrs. Burgess
and Winter, brewers.—-He, a stout able man, asserted for
a truth, what he related upon the trial, of being nearly
choaked by the rude caresses of one of the phantoms
which he met in the church-yard.—He did not keep his
bed, as it is reported in the newspapers, but he was seve-
ral days before he got the better of the fright.
An old proverb says, “ The third time generally pays
for allAccordingly, the next disturber of the peace,
made its appearance not in the church-yard, but lower
down, towards Beaver, Black Lion, and Plough and Har-
row Lanes, which served it as a retreat when pursued, from
the high road. A drummer belonging to the Chiswick
Volunteers, an inhabitant of Hammersmith, and a rat-
catcher by his profession, was one of the first that was
panic-struck by this new spectre.—The next was a clerk
to Mr. Cromwell the brewer, who thought he saw a super-
natural appearance about five o’clock one morning in
Plough and Harrow-lane, and was considerably alarmed.
The pretended spectre, on Thursday the 29th of Decem-
ber, made a more public appearance ; for as Girdler, the
watchman, came out of the house of Mrs. Samuel, No. 2,
Queen’s-place, adjoining Beaver-lane, an apprentice boy
belonging to Graham the shoemaker, ran across the road
towards him, dreadfully frightened, at what he supposed to
be a ghost ' In consequence of this, the watchman looking
towards the opposite side of the road, on the left hand of
the pump, was witness to an object all in white. Ap-
proaching the spot where it stood, he observed some per-
son divest himself of a sheet or tablecloth, he could not dis-
tinguish which, wrap it up under his coat, and run away.
Being