Crossword-Solution: GHOSTIES 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Her quick, grey eyes we cannot see, But weren't they everywhere, And shall not they be here? Though them old blids are in the grave And their good light's gone out, We'd sooner their kind ghosties have Than all the living rout As will be there no doubt.

Not that I am afraid of being there, In the little green orchard; Why, when the moon's been bright, Shedding her lonesome light, And moths like ghosties come, And the horned snail leaves home: I've stayed there, whispering and listening there, In the little green orchard.

Mos' evvy nigger kep' er rabbit foot, kaze ghosties wone gwine bodder nobuddy dat hed er lef' hind foot frum er graveyard rabbit.

Her tales of bogies and ghosties--all of them with a slight soupçon of truth in them--had excited the wonder and fearful admiration of the schoolgirls, and when she suggested, as she _did_ suggest, that 'poor little Leuchy might wipe the ghostie's hair for her,' there was a perfect chorus of delighted applause.

One time my papa he runnin' from dem patterroles and he run slap into de young massa and he say, 'Oh, you ain't no nigger, I kin tell by de smell.' "Dat mind me of de ghost story dey used to tell 'bout de ghosties what live in de big bridge down in de hollow.