Criticism, he observed in conclusion, was wholesome and necessary. But of the idle and mischievous remarks which were wont to pose as criticism, he held none in so much contempt as the cheap and irrational POOH-POOH. PRINTED BY W. HEFFER AND SONS LTD. 104 HILLS ROAD, CAMBRIDGE. Transcriber's note Text in italics has been surrounded with _underscores_, and small capitals changed to all capitals. A few punctuation errors were corrected and on page 106 "lode" was changed to "Lode". Otherwise the original has been preserved, including inconsistent hyphenation. End of Project Gutenberg's The Stoneground Ghost Tales, by E. G. Swain