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ESSAY'CONPETITION FANILY GHOSTS CEleanor Brabazon-First Prize! The other day, as I was rummaging through our attic, I came across 'a big, old, photograph album which I had not seen since I was a little girl. As I sat in the mid le of the attic floor, idly turning the pages of the book, I thought of all the people whose lives were port- hrayed in the photographs, and I wondered if they.were really so stern and formidable as their pictures made them seem. That.would their ghosts be like ghosts, members I with me On if I met them on some dark night? Surely they would be nice for after all they were my own relations and would not harm of their own family. Would you like to look through the album while I tell you about their lives? the first page we see my great-grandfather and his young wife who came to Canada from Ireland many years ago. They cut their home from the forest and spent many hard years in clearing the land. They had ten children, but only three of them survived the long, cold winters. My grandfather told me that they were ruled by anuiron hand, or perhajs a leather strap out in the wood-shed. Here is a picture of the two sons ,after they had grown to Ezra, was married three have three other ghosts -to hold his attention. be good stalwart men. The elder, my great-uncle times, therefore, I suppose that his ghost will trailing after him and they will all he trying I did not know his three wives, but from what f have heard, there are-many other family ghosts whom I would rather meet. The next picture is of my great-aunt Hatilda who was the third child of my great-grandparents. Although she looks very happy in this picture, I imagine that her ghost would be of the weeping and wailing type for she was jilted by the young man to whom she was engaged and she later died of a broken heart. 'J - . ' -Now'we'come to my grandfather whom I remember a little. His photo- graph does not do him justice, for it has forgotten the merry twinkle pwhich always shone in his eyes. He was a kind old man and used to give L me peppermints when I got restless in church. He worked unceasingly ffor others and was always doing kind acts, therefore, I am sure that ifhis ghost is one of 3anta's Christmas helpers. Perhaps I have seen him ,on a city street or perhaps he has come down my chimney on Christmas QEve, but I did not recognize him. However, even if he is just an ordin- ary ghost, he will surely have a peppermint in his pocket. '.l ' wh a mall me that oupnsinea.nttrnnn each other and this Qerteinly .was the case with my grandparents. Ky grand-mother was a penny-pincher and tried to hide her money in order to keep grandfather from giving it away. Nevertheless, grandfather could always find it, if some family required it. However, grandmother was a good woman and bake delicious cookies. I imagine that she would be a big fat needy could ghost with .a jar of cookies under her arm. 'bum -many .have the al- . You must be getting tired of my ghost tvlk. Let us close and put it back in its hiding-place until another day. There are more people in that album who are just as interesting as those we already talked about, but their ghosts can stay in hiding for a ilittle longer time. -L 'Y ti'
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