'There goes something into the Willow Pond,' said I, and I was turning to run to it, when Mrs.Roy shrieked out louder than the other shriek had been, and fell flat down on the earth.

I never hardly see such a face afore for ghastliness.

The moon was shining out full then, and it daunted me to look at her.

I thought she was dead--that the fright had killed her.

There wasn't a bit o' breath in her body, and I raised her head up, not knowing what to do with her.