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Show 116 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. itations I have ever seen this takes the 'confection,'" said I to the gentleman who was piloting us through. " That suggests an experience of mine which I will tell you," he said. A GHOST STORY. " I was superintending the digging of a tunnel not far from here, and had in my employ a number of Cornish-men who were very superstitious; I also had a Missourian who was full of mischief, and continually joking these men about ghouls and ghosts. One day the Cornishmen came out of the tunnel in excited haste, their eyes distended and limbs shaking like aspens. They declared they would not go back; ' there was something in there, a terrible, awful white something.' "' Nonsense,' said I , ' follow me!' I walked in advance of the halting, trembling men. When quite a distance in I raised my light and saw in the dim distance something white, with long ears, moving up and down. '"There it is!' they exclaimed, 'don't you see?' A ghost, sure as life, and their fear was pitiful. '"Come out of there,' I commanded; but it steadfastly held its position, and the head went up and down. ' Here, enough of that,' said I, 'these men want to go to work.' " It still paid no attention and the automatic motion went on. I drew my revolver and talked to it in lingual curiosities, for I was mad, and didn't want any more fooling. But the threatened death made no impression. "Then the Missouri boy burst into the most tickled laugh that you ever heard, and said it was only the old white burro, he had 'put it thar to see how them fools would skeer.'" When we returned from our subterranean tour we were |
