"She flung up her window of her bedroom which faced the bedroom windows of the house of a neighbor, picked up a shoe, and whammed it through a pane of glass across the narrow space that separated the two houses." Here the mother is unable to call the police because she is afraid of the "buglers" that are downstairs so she throws a shoe through the neighbor's window and breaks it. The

" The cops must have realized at once that the indignant white-haired old man belonged in the house, but they had no chance to say so. 'back ye cowardly dogs!' roared grandfather. 'Back t` the lines, ye yellow, lily-livered cattle!' with that, he fetched the officer who found the Zither a flat-handed smack alongside his head that sent him sprawling. The others beat a retreat, but not fast enough; grandfather grabbed Zither's gun from its holster and let fly." Here grandfather believes that the policemen are deserters form Meade`s army, trying to hide in his attic. The ridiculousness of the situation makes it funny. The grandfather is making his dreams into reality by making himself believe that the cops are deserters. Another thing that makes it funny is the fact that grandfather does not remember what de did in the morning.

The situation in the story could have all been avoided if the young boy would have told his mother that is was not a burglar and that it was a ghost. "Herman and I hadn't dared to tell her that is was

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