The Canterville Ghost

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The Canterville Ghost

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the

Court of St. James

By

WILDE

Illustrated by

WALLACE GOLDSMITH

1906

John W. Luce and Company

Boston and London

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• MISS VIRGINIA E. OTIS

• "HAD ONCE RACED OLD LORD BILTON ON HER PONY"

• "BLOOD HAS BEEN SPILLED ON THAT SPOT"

• "I REALLY MUST INSIST ON YOUR OILING THOSE CHAINS"

• "THE TWINS ... AT ONCE DISCHARGED TWO PELLETS ON HIM"

• "ITS HEAD WAS BALD AND BURNISHED"

• "HE MET WITH A SEVERE FALL"

• "A HEAVY JUG OF WATER FELL RIGHT DOWN ON HIM"

• "MAKING SATIRICAL REMARKS ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS"

• "Suddenly There Leaped out TWO figures"

• "POOR, POOR GHOST, SHE MURMURED; 'HAVE YOU NO PLACE

WHERE YOU CAN SLEFP?"

• "THE GHOST GLIDED ON MORE SWIFTI.Y"

• "HE HEARD SOMEBODY GALLOPING AFTER HIM"

• "OUT ON THE LANDING STEPPED VIRGINIA"

• "CHAINED TO IT WAS A GAUNT SKELETON"

• "By THE SIDE OF THE HEARSE AND THE COACHES WALKED THE

SERVANTS WITH LIGHTED TORCHES"

• "THE MOON CAME OUT FROM BEHIND A CLOUD"

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When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville

Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord

Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour,

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