Hallowe'en Pranks at
Langstaff
Corners
Langstaff's Wheels
At the
Langstaff
corner, Mr.
John
Langstaff had a pail factory. Part of his equipment was a pair of wheels
more than six feet [about two metres] tall, and an axel and chain, used to haul
large logs into the factory by means of a team of oxen. The pranksters seized
the wheels and hoisted them to the roof of
Cook's Hotel. How
they ever managed to do this is hard to imagine, for the wheels were very heavy
and awkward to handle.
G. Elmore Reaman,A History of Vaughan Township(Toronto:University of Toronto Press,1971),p. 237
Ghost
Another practical joke played at
Langstaff was
to frighten people with a make-believe ghost. The "spirit" was a sheet stuffed
with straw and strung with wire so that it might be lowered in front of an
unsuspecting villager. This went on until one man was so frightened he went
into hysterics. That put an end to the ghost at
Langstaff.
G. Elmore Reaman,A History of Vaughan Township(Toronto:University of Toronto Press,1971),p. 237
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