passages with nutshells every night to the great annoyance of their parents and the servants, but it was of no avail. It was quite evident that his feelings were so wounded that he would not appear. Mr Otis consequently resumed his great work on the history of the Democratic Party, on which he had been engaged for some years, Mrs Otis organized a wonderful clam-bake, which amazed the whole county: the boys took to lacrosse euchre, poker, and other American national games, and Virginia rode about the lanes on her pony, accompanied by the young Duke of Cheshire, who had come to spend the last week of his holidays at Canterville Chase. It was generally assumed that the ghost had gone away, and, in fact, Mr Otis wrote a letter to that effect to Lord Canterville, who, in reply expressed his great pleasure at the news, and sent his best congratulations to the Minister’s worthy wife.

The Otises, however, were deceived, for the ghost was still in the house, and though now almost an invalid, was by no means caly to let matters rest, particularly as he heard that among the guests was the young Duke of Cheshire, whose grand-uncle, Lord Francis Stilton, had once bet a hundred guineas with Colonel Carbury that he would play dice with the Canterville ghost, and was found the next morning lying on the floor of the card-room in such a helpless paralytic state that, though he lived on to a great age, he was never able to say anything again but “Double Sixes The story was well known at the time, though, of course, out of respect to the feelings of the two noble families, every attempt wa made to hush it up, and a full account of all the circumstances connected with it will be found in the third volume of Lord Tattle Recollections of the Prince Regent and his Friends. The ghost, the was naturally very anxious to show that he had not lost his influence

Wond-Notes of no avail-failed to fulfill a purpose, the Democratic Party -reference to American politics, euchre-a card game

Oscar Wilde’s The Camerville Ghos

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