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A GHOST STORY.
In all the Eastern hemisphere / You would n't find a knight, a peer, / A viscount, earl or baronet, / A marquis or a duke, nor yet / A prince, or emperor, or king, / Or sultan, czar, or anything / That could in family pride surpass / J. Wentworth Beane of Boston, Mass.