a match and litlightthe lamp that stood ready on the table , for the half-light began to grow drearydreary, as it is apt to do when one has a short week ago buriedburythe hope of one ’s life .
Indeed , certain of the most authentic historians of those parts , who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre , allege that the body of the trooper having been buriedburyin the churchyard , the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head , and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow , like a midnight blast , is owing to his being belated , and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak .
This little boy steppedstepforward and carefully selectedselectthree of the coveted fragments , two of which he buriedburyin the pocket of his knickerbockers , depositingdepositthe other as promptly in another place .