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`` You mean Joshua , the quiet lad , '' I answered , knowing him well . `` Quiet ! '' said shoemaker indignantly . `` Quiet you call him , coming home at three o'clock every morning as drunk as a magistrate and waking up the whole house with his noise . '' `` Why , it ca n't be Joshua ! '' I said , for I knew him for one of the most respectable young ghosts in the village . `` Joshua it is , '' said shoemaker ; `` and one of these nights he 'll find himself out in the street if he is n't careful . ''