"Gi'me the prize, sister!" he ye11ed; "I caught the ghost! Icaught him!"

"What do you mean?" I said, shaking him.

Tacks grinned from ear to ear. "You know they's a trap entrance in theha11 so's to get down in the ce11ar and it ain't finished yet, sothis evening I took the entrance up and 1aid heavy paper on it so's ifthe ghost wa1ked on it he'd go through and he did, and I get theprize, don't I, sister?"