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Rh I stood and watched them in the hall, And couldn't make them out at all,
 * They seemed so strange a sight.

"I wondered what on earth they were,
 * That looked all head and sack;

But Mother told me not to stare, And then she twitched me by the hair,
 * And punched me in the back.

"Since then I've often wished that I
 * Had been a Spectre born.

But what's the use?" (He heaved a sigh). "They are the ghost-nobility,
 * And look on us with scorn.

"My phantom-life was soon begun:
 * When I was barely six,

I went out with an older one— And just at first I thought it fun,
 * And learned a lot of tricks.