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" Pshaw 1" exclaimed one of the audience ; " you've only 

 been telling a dream, in this long yarn, we've been listen- 

 ing to." 



" Wai," replied the narrator ; " some people that I've 

 told it to, have suspicioned that it might be so ; but every 

 thing about it seemed so nateral, that I'm ahnost ready to 

 make my affidavy that it was sober fact. One thing, how- 

 ever, I always had my doubts about : I never fully believed, 

 that I was actually pitched over that island. I've hearn it 

 said that when a man has eaten a hearty dinner, and goes 

 to sleep with the hot sun pourin' right down on him, he's 

 apt to see and hear a good many strange things before he 

 wakes up. May be it was so with me." 



