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THE HAMMERSMITH GHOSTS. 79
capacity; he dressed himself in the meanwhile forthat
purpose, and waited for the apprentice, in the manner re-
presented by our Engraving.—-But this opportunity would
not have occurred to him, had not the one armed postman,
who lodged in Graham’s house, been than in bed; as he
generally had the office of seeing this young woman home
when she happened to come that way.—But though Gra-
ham has acknowledged this to be his first offence, his
mind must, upon reflection, be considerably hurt, at what
has lately occurred.
This Mr. Graham, it is to be noticed, was known as a
serious person, a constant attendant, and one of the first
singers in Trinity Chapel, and always bore an excellent
character before.—-We have since heard a rumour that he
means to leave his house ; and some circumstances having
transpired, have increased the dislike the foregoing affair
has naturally occasioned.
Among others, we are told, that a few days after the ex-
hibition at the pump, Graham meeting Girdler, he said in
a jeering tone, “ Were not you very much frightened the
other night ?” To which the other replied, “ No—he was
not—but whoever the ghost was, he will go to hell, die
when he willand immediately left Graham to enjoy
his own feelings.—But possibly, Mr. Graham might think
the pains he took, and his singing at the funeral of poor
Millwood, would be some reparation for the folly in w hich
he had been so deeply implicated. The report that a lady
of Brooke Green, had also died in consequence of the ap-
pearance of a spectre, we are happy to find is totally un-
founded ; she having received her fright from a person in
a state of intoxication. And the report of a figure dressed
in a skin with horns, together with that of cutting the traces
of the Hammersmith coachman’s horses, have no foundation
in fact; but owe their rise to newspaper fabrication.
WONDER.
capacity; he dressed himself in the meanwhile forthat
purpose, and waited for the apprentice, in the manner re-
presented by our Engraving.—-But this opportunity would
not have occurred to him, had not the one armed postman,
who lodged in Graham’s house, been than in bed; as he
generally had the office of seeing this young woman home
when she happened to come that way.—But though Gra-
ham has acknowledged this to be his first offence, his
mind must, upon reflection, be considerably hurt, at what
has lately occurred.
This Mr. Graham, it is to be noticed, was known as a
serious person, a constant attendant, and one of the first
singers in Trinity Chapel, and always bore an excellent
character before.—-We have since heard a rumour that he
means to leave his house ; and some circumstances having
transpired, have increased the dislike the foregoing affair
has naturally occasioned.
Among others, we are told, that a few days after the ex-
hibition at the pump, Graham meeting Girdler, he said in
a jeering tone, “ Were not you very much frightened the
other night ?” To which the other replied, “ No—he was
not—but whoever the ghost was, he will go to hell, die
when he willand immediately left Graham to enjoy
his own feelings.—But possibly, Mr. Graham might think
the pains he took, and his singing at the funeral of poor
Millwood, would be some reparation for the folly in w hich
he had been so deeply implicated. The report that a lady
of Brooke Green, had also died in consequence of the ap-
pearance of a spectre, we are happy to find is totally un-
founded ; she having received her fright from a person in
a state of intoxication. And the report of a figure dressed
in a skin with horns, together with that of cutting the traces
of the Hammersmith coachman’s horses, have no foundation
in fact; but owe their rise to newspaper fabrication.
WONDER.