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The death of a ghost 幽灵之死
For years, villagers belived that Endley Farm was haunted. The farm was owned by two brothers,Joe and Cox.They employed a few farmhands, but no one was willing to work there a long.Every time a worker gave up his jov, he told the same story.Farm labourerssaid that they always woke up to find that work had been done overnight.Hay had been cut and cowsheds had beed cleaned.A farm worker, who stayed up all night,claimed to have seen a figure cutting corn in the moonlight.In time,it became an accepted fact that the Cox brothers employed a conscientious ghost that did most of their work for them.
No one suspected that there might be someone else on the farm who had never been seen.This was indeed the case.A short time ago,villagers were astonished to learn that the ghost of Endley had died.Everyone went to the funeral,for the‘ghost’was none other than Eric Cox,a third brother who was supposed to have died as a young man.After the funeral,Joe and B