萊陽宋玉叔先生為部曹時，所僦第，甚荒落。一夜，二婢奉太夫人宿廳上，聞院內扑扑有聲，如縫工之噴水者。太夫人促婢起，穴窗窺視，見一老嫗，短身駝背，白髮如帚，冠一髻，長二尺許，周院環走，疏急作鶴步，行且噴，水出不窮。婢愕返白。太夫人亦驚起，兩婢扶窗下聚觀之。嫗忽逼窗，直噴櫺內；窗紙破裂，三人俱仆，而家人不之知也。東曦既上，家人畢集，叩門不應，方駭。撬扉入，見一主二婢，駢死一室。一婢鬲下猶溫。扶灌之，移時而醒，乃述所見。先生至，哀憤欲死。細窮沒處，掘深三尺余，漸露白髮；又掘之，得一尸，如所見狀，面肥腫如生。令擊之，骨肉皆爛，皮內盡清水。
莱阳宋玉叔先生为部曹时，所僦第，甚荒落。一夜，二婢奉太夫人宿厅上，闻院内扑扑有声，如缝工之喷水者。太夫人促婢起，穴窗窥视，见一老妪，短身驼背，白发如帚，冠一髻，长二尺许，周院环走，疏急作鹤步，行且喷，水出不穷。婢愕返白。太夫人亦惊起，两婢扶窗下聚观之。妪忽逼窗，直喷櫺内；窗纸破裂，三人俱仆，而家人不之知也。东曦既上，家人毕集，叩门不应，方骇。撬扉入，见一主二婢，骈死一室。一婢鬲下犹温。扶灌之，移时而醒，乃述所见。先生至，哀愤欲死。细穷没处，掘深三尺余，渐露白发；又掘之，得一尸，如所见状，面肥肿如生。令击之，骨肉皆烂，皮内尽清水。
When Master Song Yushu of Laiyang was a secretary in one of the ministries, the house he rented was very desolate and run-down. One night two maids were sleeping in the hall with his mother, the old lady, when they heard a puff, puff from the courtyard, like a tailor spraying water. The old lady urged the maids to get up. They poked a hole in the window paper and peeped out. They saw an old woman, short and hunchbacked, with white hair like a broom, done up in a single topknot about two feet tall. She was going round and round the courtyard with long, quick strides like a crane’s, spurting as she went, and the water never ran out. The maids came back aghast and told the old lady. She got up in alarm too, and with the two maids holding her up she went to the window, and all three watched. Suddenly the old woman came right up to the window and spurted straight through the lattice. The window paper burst, and all three fell down. No one else in the house knew. When the sun was up in the east, the household gathered. They knocked at the door and got no answer, and only then took fright. They forced the door open and went in, and found the mistress and the two maids lying dead side by side in the one room. One maid was still warm below the breast. They raised her up and poured something down her throat, and after a while she came round and told them what she had seen. Master Song arrived, so stricken with grief and rage that he wished himself dead. They searched carefully at the spot where the old woman had vanished. When they had dug down more than three feet, white hair began to show; digging further, they found a corpse, just as she had looked, its face fat and swollen as if alive. Song had it struck. Flesh and bone all fell to pulp, and inside the skin was nothing but clear water.