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The sociable ghost : $b Being the adventures of a reporter who was invited by the sociable ghost to a grand banquet, ball, and convention under the ground of old Trinity churchyard. A true tale of the things he saw and did not see while he was not there.Harper, Olive

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The sociable ghost : $b Being the adventures of a reporter who was invited by the sociable ghost to a grand banquet, ball, and convention under the ground of old Trinity churchyard. A true tale of the things he saw and did not see while he was not there.

Name: The sociable ghost : $b Being the adventures of a reporter who was invited by the sociable ghost to a grand banquet, ball, and convention under the ground of old Trinity churchyard. A true tale of the things he saw and did not see while he was not there.
Author: Harper, Olive

Harper, Olive

American fiction -- 20th century; Ghost stories

"No, but there are such things as moral suffering, and one thing came to
my knowledge to-day. This is what one might call poetic justice, and it
would be comic if it were not so tragic. It is this; all the women who
have deliberately and with intention shirked the cares of maternity while
alive, are obliged to take care of the children of the poor overworked
women whose quivers were full of them on earth. There is a kind of
heavenly kindergarten, but the labors of these nurses and teachers are
quite as hard as were those of the poor mothers, and the unaccustomed and
often unpleasant labor is enough to make any poor rich woman shed tears
of rage and worry—that is, if it were a possible thing for a ghost to
cry—for the source of their tears is dried up forever. I heard one woman
say that she would give one million years of heaven if she could only have
one good cry."

"So then there is none of that weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth
that we read about and have dinned into our ears ever since we could hear,
and long before we could understood?"

"No; but don’t think that you can do wrong with impunity. Ex fatoris, is
the law, and it is always enforced in one way or another. But, we are here
to-night to enjoy ourselves as well as the nature of the occasion will
permit. Each has full permission to follow his or her own inclinations,
and—well—some of them seem to forget that they are adding to their own
term of detention. We have been talking on subjects usually avoided by
people on pleasure bent, and I should not have said so much only that I
hope it may do some good directly or indirectly. The music will soon
begin to play for those who wish to dance, and after that we shall have a
short convention, where some important questions will be discussed with a
view to interest the living public in our needs and complaints."

"Before you leave me," said the young man hurriedly, "I beg you to tell me
where the children are. I have not seen one, and I know that there are
many buried right here and others in St. Paul's, and in all other
cemeteries in the city."

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The sociable ghost : $b Being the adventures of a reporter who was invited by the sociable ghost to a grand banquet, ball, and convention under the ground of old Trinity churchyard. A true tale of the things he saw and did not see while he was not there.

Harper, Olive

American fiction -- 20th century; Ghost stories

"No, but there are such things as moral suffering, and one thing came to
my knowledge to-day. This is what one might call poetic justice, and it
would be comic if it were not so tragic. It is this; all the women who
have deliberately and with intention shirked the cares of maternity while
alive, are obliged to take care of the children of the poor overworked
women whose quivers were full of them on earth. There is a kind of
heavenly kindergarten, but the labors of these nurses and teachers are
quite as hard as were those of the poor mothers, and the unaccustomed and
often unpleasant labor is enough to make any poor rich woman shed tears
of rage and worry—that is, if it were a possible thing for a ghost to
cry—for the source of their tears is dried up forever. I heard one woman
say that she would give one million years of heaven if she could only have
one good cry."

"So then there is none of that weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth
that we read about and have dinned into our ears ever since we could hear,
and long before we could understood?"

"No; but don’t think that you can do wrong with impunity. Ex fatoris, is
the law, and it is always enforced in one way or another. But, we are here
to-night to enjoy ourselves as well as the nature of the occasion will
permit. Each has full permission to follow his or her own inclinations,
and—well—some of them seem to forget that they are adding to their own
term of detention. We have been talking on subjects usually avoided by
people on pleasure bent, and I should not have said so much only that I
hope it may do some good directly or indirectly. The music will soon
begin to play for those who wish to dance, and after that we shall have a
short convention, where some important questions will be discussed with a
view to interest the living public in our needs and complaints."

"Before you leave me," said the young man hurriedly, "I beg you to tell me
where the children are. I have not seen one, and I know that there are
many buried right here and others in St. Paul's, and in all other
cemeteries in the city."

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The sociable ghost : $b Being the adventures of a reporter who was invited by the sociable ghost to a grand banquet, ball, and convention under the ground of old Trinity churchyard. A true tale of the things he saw and did not see while he was not there.

The sociable ghost : $b Being the adventures of a reporter who was invited by the sociable ghost to a grand banquet, ball, and convention under the ground of old Trinity churchyard. A true tale of the things he saw and did not see while he was not there.

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