"This cannibal land of deep darkness with woods of spooky mystery is like a magnet," said Mary Slessor.

First Itu, and then the Creek, then back from Aro, where I had set my heart, to a lonely, spooky, wilderness.

It has great large rooms, and rather spooky, dark hallways.

Big rooms and spooky halls andsay, Mother, it must have a cellar and an attic.

" "Then the attic wasn't spooky?" queried Chet, disappointed.

" "Goodness, that sounds as if it were away off in the wilderness!" cried Billie, adding: "But wouldn't it be awful to have to live in that spooky old house all alone?

"Why, Billie," Laura stopped in her transports to regard her friend with wide eyes, "aren't you simply wild about the place too?" "Oh, I suppose so," said Billie, adding as a shadow crossed her face: "The folks think I'm awful, all 'cept Chet, and I suppose I ambut I'd give the whole place, tunnels, spooky hallways, ghostly attic, and everything for just a few little hundred dollar bills.

What's the use of going off into the wilderness to a spooky house if we're not going to meet a ghost?" "Well, you know I didn't promise any ghosts," said Billie, looking up from a piece of fancy work she was embroidering.

But what," she asked, looking curiously at Billie, "did your brother mean by saying not to scare away the ghosts before he gets there?" "Oh," laughed Billie, "he has a sort of idea that the house at Cherry Corners is inhabited by spiritsjust because mother said that the halls and rooms were spooky.

" "Oh, but I don't want to go up in the spooky upstairs part," whispered Violet to Billie, as she scraped some odds and ends off on a plate.

"Mother said this was the spookiest place in the whole houseexcept the cellar.

"After last night I've had enough spooky experiences to last me a week.

"It's so confoundedly dark" "Oh, won't you please come down?" wailed Billie's voice from the spooky depths of the attic.

Skinny's eyes looked awful big and wild, kind of, with the fire shining right in his face and it made me feel kind of spooky to look at him.

The voice was all mixed up with the wind and it sounded spooky and gave me the creeps.

If I was a grown-up author I could write some dandy stuff about it, because it was all dark and spooky as you might say, and you could see the trees reflected in it and casting their something or otheryou know what I mean.

"Wayne, you've lived alone so long that you're getting spooky.

Oh, no, there wasn't anything spooky or séancy about it; the stockings weren't walking all alone by themselves; they were on thethat's to say, they were worn by a very well-known woman, whose stockings are sure to give the lead to multitudes of other stockings!

How spooky thin she looked, and her face was yellow in patches!

"Isn't he spooky looking?" said Gladys, shivering and turning away.

R64073, 14Jul50, Gutmann & Gutmann, inc. (PWH) SPOOKY HOLLOW, by Carolyn Wells.

R64073, 14Jul50, Gutmann & Gutmann, inc. (PWH) SPOOKY HOLLOW, by Carolyn Wells.

Spooky mountain Sally, words & music by Smiley Burnette.

"You've been reading spooky stories.

There was one spooky-looking tree, dead on one side.