Buxton High School - Crescent Yearbook (Buxton, ME)

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THE CRFSCMNT hall dullng the extnmf thex xxum talkmg about the castles ot qcotl md xxhlch VSQIQSWILI to be haunted md I xxas SUIDIISQCI xxhen oul hostess told us thele xx as a loom IH her castle that was V1Slt9d by ghosts and that no one had slept IH that room fox xefus I laughed and asked lf I could sleep ln that partlcular 1oom xxhlch I lealned was In the hlghest toxx ex of the castle was not afrald I laughed agaln 'md told her that I dld not behexe m ghosts Then the othel guests told some nerve rackmg SKOFIQQ oi ghosts but none of them changed my pmpose and about nlne o clock a merlx crowd accompamed me to the room of ghosts as the others called lt The hostess hghted four candles and plled two or three logs on the chee1ful open fire xxhlch she had aheadx ordered to be bu1lt1n the old fashloned fireplace The clowd then bldfllllg' me good nlght passed doxxn stms agaln Standlng befole the the place xx hlch was very large and shoxx ed that lt had not been used f01 many 56315 I looked about me In the mlddle of the room stood an old fom posted canopy bedstead On the xx all oppo slte was drawn a warr1or on ho1se back clad ln armor on the xxall to the rlght Were numerous IIQUIQS whlch I could not make out and on the left was a xvamscotted xxmdoxx sexe: xl feet from the flool and l'1lT1 md slx ct xx l9l3Q'1fll'l2' 1g'unst1t A I xx is xelx tued I declded to get mto bed and sleep untll ITIOIHIHQ' I dld not knoxx hoxx long I had been asleep but I not1ced my candles xx ere out 'md the fire buxmng xerv brxghtly I sat up IH bed and saxx somethmg to cause my han to stand Ll9Ct upon my head Alound the fue xxe1e sexe1al I xx ould haxe c11ed out but could not I could not moxe fl om my posltlon fox feal of attlactlng the attentlon of the fl ules 'uound he fire I notlced as the loose galment sllpped from the shouldels of one bones that vxele yellow xx1th age After vxhat seemed to me houls the mlddle figule Stllltfd and looked toxx ard the bed Imaglne my hOI101 xxhen I saxx a gunnlng skull The flgule rose and moxed toxx ald the bed xx he1e I sat bolt up ught tljlllf to C15 out Next the figure took from under the loose garment a goblet of steam1ng llqllld and held lt toxxard me Then the other Hgules each took a goblet of steannnff hquxd from undel then ga1 ments and held them out I guessed the llqllld to be polson but as the f1gu1e moved nea1e1 the bed the old clock on the xxall stluck txxelve and I fell back unconsclous When I avxoke the sun was shlnlng through the w1ndow the storm had clealed axvay and thele xvere no slgns of ghosts O1 anythlng else unusual 18 4 ' , I I ' , 1' 13 ' II' Q. .113 :I 1 .2 - 1 1' L 1' ' 'C x 'x,'2 2 ,21 'e' r'kz.'.e'. s Y . V 1 C. v 2 I van v v-y I I1 Q . . v 1 1' 1 1 1k I ' I C ' 1 ' V I . . 1 . 7 v ' ' I tv c ' . c I . 7 U T 7. ' 1 1 ' 1 C 7 ' 1 , 1 ' ' 1 1 C V . . 1 1 y 1 7 1 She said thatI might sleep there if I figures covered with loose garments. l . I' c D 1. 7 I 'I . 4 1 u - . - ' ' A f 1' K N ' ' ' I ' 7 ' , , L v ' 7 1 1 ' 'I v - 15 , - 1 Y ' . ' .1 ar ' 1 ' r ' ' . , , I . , 7 ' f 1 y vt ' I 1 - ' ' ' 1' T 1 1' f 1 y 7 Z3 ' - . ' V I C , - I v . Z' 1 ' 1 . - 7 ' ' 1 r ' A-'w ' ' ' : .Y 1 , 2 v . . . v - 7 1 7 Y ' . , v ' ' I Y l 1 7 . 3 , A , . V. Y , , D 7

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