![]() ![]() The twins burst out in shrieks of laughter and the ghost fled. In order to frighten the boys enormously, he flung the door wide open, when a heavy jug of water fell right down on him, wetting him to the skin. When he reached the twins' bedroom, he found the door slightly open. This so annoyed the ghost, that he decided to teach the twins a lesson and give them the fright of their lives.Īll day long the ghost had prepared this grand event and at a quarter past one at night he finally glided out of his room and crept down the corridor. They stretched strings across the corridor, over which he tripped in the dark, and once he slipped on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed for him on the staircase. ![]() ![]() However, the twins still played their tricks on him. Whenever the Canterville ghost roamed the house now, he was careful to have oiled his chains and not to make a sound. If the Otis family did not want it, they clearly did not deserve it. ![]() He also gave up the point of the blood-stain on the library floor. He was very weak and tired and his nerves were completely shattered. For five days, the ghost did not leave his room. ![]()
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