BR 2-14: STORIES OF HAUNTED HOUSES

I read this book “STORIES OF HAUNTED HOUSES” today. There are three stories of ghost. I like second story. The second story’s title is Highwayman’s Halt. The main character is Polly. She helped her father run The Highwayman’s Halt. It was a creaky wooden inn which was over three hundred years old. Polly’s father had so few customers and they were losing money. Polly knew that there is Highwayman’s treasure. The highwayman is Percy Flintlock who lived at the inn long time ago. One night, he robbed money and hid it somewhere in the building before he was caught. His bag of gold coin was never found. Everyone said Percy’s ghost will appear if anyone tries to steal his money. Polly wanted to find it, so she began to search it from chimney to cellar. Finally she could find it. But the Percy’s ghost appeared in front of her then. Percy wanted to hand back his money. When they argued about it, Mr. Trix grabbed the money from Polly and run to his car. Percy and Polly rode a ghostly horse, chased Trix. The horse was faster than car!

I thought that Polly and Percy can hand back the money. However, they could not do it, because the money fell into the sea! The money was lost forever. It is a disappointing thing. Polly might be sad. Perhaps Percy might be very angry. It is not written in this book. But everyone wanted to stay at the inn for the disturbance. They want to meet the famous ghost, Percy and his horse, Jess. My favorite line is when Percy said “She’s faster than a pistol shot” (Punter, 2005, p.27). She was his horse, Jess. When I read it, I thought that I want to ride Jess! The inn came to prosper than before. It is good thing. I thought that it was a chance!

Reference

Punter, Russell. (2005). STORIES OF HAUNTED HOUSES. London: Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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