The Rider on the White Horse

The Rider on the White Horse

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The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor W. Storm

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1888

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"You aren't good for anything!" he cried out into the noise. "Just as the people are no good!" And at last, often in darkness, he trotted home from the wide water along the dike, until his tall figure had reached the low door under his father's thatch roof and slipped into the little room.

Sometimes he had brought home a handful of clay; then he sat down beside the old man, who now humoured him, and by the light of the thin tallow candle he kneaded all sorts of dike models, laid them in a flat dish with water and tried to imitate the washing away by the waves; or he took his slate and drew the profiles of the dikes toward the waterside as he thought they ought to be.

He had no idea of keeping up intercourse with his schoolmates; it seemed, too, as if they did not care for this dreamer. When winter had come again and the frost had appeared, he wandered still farther out on the dike to points he had never reached before, until the boundless ice-covered sand flats lay before him.

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* A ghost rides past you on a white horse.

* Why does he ride?

* The old school master will tell the tale.

* As a visitor taking refuge in a terrible storm, you are doubly interested in the tale.

* I hesitate to call it a ghost story. No bumps in the night, no dripping blood and no malicious daemons. Only an interesting story of why he rides.