We heard of all the witches, warlocks, incubi, succibi, harpies, devils, imps, and haunters of Avitchi, from all the teachings of history, sacred and profane, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, mediaeval, Swedenborg, Rosicrucian, theosophy, theology, with every last ounce of horror, mystery, shivers, and creeps squeezed out of them.

=The Lord of the Air.= THE STORY OF THE EAGLE =The King of the Mamozekel.= THE STORY OF THE MOOSE =The Watchers of the Camp-fire.= THE STORY OF THE PANTHER =The Haunter of the Pine Gloom.= THE STORY OF THE LYNX =The Return to the Trails.= THE STORY OF THE BEAR =The Little People of the Sycamore.= THE STORY OF THE RACCOON By OTHER AUTHORS =The Great Scoop.= By MOLLY

'I'm no haunter of such places myself, God knows; butI see you're in earnest nowwill you come with me, sir,for once?

Is it thou that hast thus made me of party against myself?How camest thou in?In what disguise, thou egregious haunter of my more agreeable hours?Stand thou, with fate, but neuter in this controversy; and, if I cannot do credit to human nature, and to the female sex, by bringing down such an angel as this to class with and adorn it, (for adorn it she does in her very foibles,) then I am all your's, and never will resist you more.

O (to my grief I speak it), you shall find There's no more difference in a tavern-haunter Than is between a spital and a beggar.

Lytton essayed also, with considerable popular success, the romantic novel in The Pilgrims of the Rhine and Zanoni, and tried the ghost story in The Haunted and the Haunters.

[Scot.], whisky, xeres^. drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber^, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker [Slang], sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal^, Bacchante^; devotee to Bacchus^; bum [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter.

This must have warned the haunters; for when we descended to a secret room which we found at the end of a long and narrow passage in the thickness of the walls, we found no one.

How the candles and the fire were put out, I do not know; for the haunters certainly did not act quite up to tradition, which held that the lights were put out by the 'blood-drip.'

But to propose marriage to a weather-beaten haunter of hotels like Lady Sophia Entwistle, and to reveal his identity to her, and to allow her to accept his proposalthe thing had been unimaginably inept!

With the shadow of my passion have I darkened your eyes, Haunter of the depth of my gaze!

I took him for a canting carpet-haunter; but be sure, the man who will bully his own patrons has an honest purpose in him, though it bears strange fruit on this wicked hither-side of the grave.

Then kneeling with her hands across her breast, Thus lowly she preferr'd her chaste request: Oh, goddess, haunter of the woodland green, To whom both heaven and earth and seas are seen; Queen of the nether skies, where half the year Thy silver beams descend, and light the gloomy sphere!

We wish Lieutenant Drummond would calculate the miles of newspaper columns which every club-haunter daily swallows, and the price he pays for the same to the proprietaries and the revenue.

He knew that in a hand-to-hand struggle with the feverish, emaciated townsman, he, the country-bred lad, the haunter of woods and cliffs, the dweller of the Thanet smithy, would be more than a match for his opponent.

I was already a haunter of old battle-fields, that thread of heredity, from a line of forbears very martial in their humble way, asserting itself in whatever lands I wandered.

"A haunter of marshes, a holder of moors. . . .

There was a certain "Daft Will Speir," who was a privileged haunter of Eglinton Castle and grounds.