The Haunted Subalterns by Kipling...

[Russ Chandler]

Just for fun the American Antiquarian Society posted this on Facebook...

They say:

"This 1912 pen and ink drawing by illustrator Sarah Noble Ives (1864-1944) depicts a skeleton draped in cloth, strumming a banjo. It was created for the children’s book The Drums of the Fore and Aft, and Other Stories by English writer Rudyard Kipling.

The image is the heading is for the tale, “The Haunted Subalterns” and is part of the Society’s McLoughlin Brothers Collection of archival drawings. This portion of the collection included forty-seven boxes of watercolors, pen and ink, paste-ups and proofs."

Apparently in the story a banjo starts playing itself. A ghost that enjoyed playing second parts would be really cool, wouldn't it?

[Trapdoor2]

Them bony fingertips would be loud!