`` Well , GOOD people have seen him -- and heard him . '' retorted Mary . `` They say he appears and grovels on the ground and holds you by the legs and gibbers and moans like he did when he was alive . I thought of that as soon as I seen that white thing in the bushes and thought if it caught me like that and moaned I 'd drop down dead on the spot . So I cut and run . It MIGHT N'T have been his ghost , but I was n't going to take any chances with a ha ` nt . '' `` It was likely old Mrs. Stimson 's white calf , '' laughed Di . `` It pastures in that garden -- I 've seen it . '' `` Maybe so . But I 'M not going home through the Bailey garden any more . Here 's Jerry with a big string of trout and it 's my turn to cook them . Jem and Jerry both say I 'm the best cook in the Glen . And Cornelia told me I could bring up this batch of cookies . I all but dropped them when I saw Henry 's ghost . '' Jerry hooted when he heard the ghost story -- which Mary repeated as she fried the fish , touching it up a trifle or so , since Walter had gone to help Faith to set the table . It made no impression on Jerry , but Faith and Una and Carl had been secretly much frightened , though they would never have given in to it . It was all right as long as the others were with them in the valley : but when the feast was over and the shadows fell they quaked with remembrance . Jerry went up to Ingleside with the Blythes to see Jem about something , and Mary Vance went around that way home . So Faith and Una and Carl had to go back to the manse alone . They walked very close together and gave the old Bailey garden a wide berth .
They did not believe that it was haunted , XXXXX course , but they would not go near it for all that .
So as by of on that though through to with