Description - Hypnotic Tales, and Other Tales by James Lauren Ford
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...suit, because he did n't have time to put his own clothes on; then started downstairs on the dead-run. How he did it, I don't know, but somehow he managed to catch his foot in the wire, and the first thing we knew, while we were all sitting at breakfast, wc heard a fearful noise outside, and then the door burst open and the Deacon came tumbling in and fell full length on the floor, and you could hear the old dinner-bell a-rattling down the stairs behind him. "We all burst out laughing, while the Deacon picked himself up and began getting his feet out of the wire. THE SCHOOL-BOY'S TALE. log "' Drury, ' says the Doctor, kinder quick and mad like, 'come here to me at once;' and the Deacon started, gave another pull to the wire, and down came the dinner-bell rattling and jangling right on to the dining-room floor. I don't know which looked most surprised, the Deacon or the Doctor. '"What 's that bell?' says the Doctor. "'That's the bell that rings when anybody's coming upstairs, sir.' "'Then you'll have ten marks for ringing it on the way down, ' says the Doctor; and that was the last of the Doctor-Catcher." "Good night," came from every one; and in a few minutes the fire, burning low on the hearth, shone on an array of empty chairs. "It 's a curious fact," said the Hypnotist, as the company separated for the night, "but I could n't hypnotize that boy at all. He told the truth naturally and of his own volition. Very different from the rest of you." OTHER TALES. THE BUNCO-STEERER'S CHRISTMAS. In A Neat But Humble Room on the east side of the city, Mary Sawdust sat with her sewing on her lap, and her children playing on the floor beside her. There were traces of tears on her young face, and a quiver in her...
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