Why did the ghost gave up all hopes of frightening the Otis family? Plz plz plz experts answer this question
The Ghost had made elaborate plans to frighten the Otis family. He decided he would first frighten Washington Otis, by gibbering from the foot of his bed. When Washington would wake up hearing these sounds, the Ghost would stab himself three times to the sound of low music. After that, he would go to the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Otis. There he would put his cold and wet hand on Mrs. Otis' forehead and speak terrible words to words to wake up and frighten Mr. Otis. For Virginia Otis, he had decided he would make groaning sounds from the wardrobe or tap on her window pane. For the Otis twins he had special plans, because they plagued him the most. He would first sit on their chest, so that they felt as though they were having a nightmare. When they would wake up, the Ghost would stand between their beds in "the form of a green, icy-cold corpse, till they became paralyzed with fear, and finally, to throw off the winding-sheet, and crawl round the room, with white, bleached bones and one rolling eyeball, in the character of 'Dumb Daniel, or the Suicide's Skeleton". Such were the plans of the Ghost to frighten the Otis family.
The ghost was scared of the twins and that said a lot about the intelligent and innovative ways in which the twins always managed to stay two steps ahead of the poor apparition. First, the twins brought their pea-shooters on the night of the ghost's first encounter with the family and at once discharged two pellets on him. The accuracy of aim with which they pelted the ghost could only have been attained by long and careful practice of a writing master. They were amused by the apparition and not even a shred of fear was in them when it came to the ghost, they tormented him with the delight of schoolboys having a go at their favourite sport. Once on reaching the room of the twins, he flung the door wide open wishing to make an effective entry when a heavy jug of water fell right down on him, wetting him to the skin and just missing his shoulder by a couple of inches. At the same moment, he heard stifled shrieks of laughter proceed from the four-post bed and the shock to his nervous system was so great that he fled right back to his lair. He was terrified of the twins from then onward. The twins would often lie in wait for him on several occasions and strew the passages with nutshells every night but the ghost was so frightened of the boys that he stopped his appearances. They were always preempting his each and every strike.
The Otis twins enjoyed plaguing the Ghost and tried to invent new methods of troubling him. They would hit him on the head with pillows and then have a go at him again with their peas-shooters. On Friday the 17th, the Ghost made elaborate plans to frighten all the members of the Otis family, especially the twins. However, the twins got to the Ghost before he could! They constructed a false ghost a sweeping brush, cleaver, turnip etc. The apparition frightened the Ghost so much that he abandoned his plans to frighten the Otis family. When he discovered that he had been fooled, he came across the poem the twins had written for him:
YE OTIS GHOSTE.
Ye Onlie true and Originale Spook.
Beware of Ye Imitationes.
All others are Counterfeite.
This was the twins method of plaguing the Ghost further. After this incident the Ghost abandoned all plans of frightening the Otis family.