CHAPTEE VII. 



KINKS ! " DIRTY DOGS " THE BARKING DOG THAT WAS FOUND 

 DEAD IN THE YARD THE DOG THAT BARKED HIMSELF TO 

 DEATH. 



" THE hallucinations of Smith," said Spalding, after we 

 had settled the matter of the pipes, and were enjoying a 

 fresh pull at the weed, " as described by the Doctor, remind 

 me of a slight attack of fever which I had some months ago, 

 and from which I recovered partly through the aid of the 

 Doctor's medicine, and partly through the kindness of a 

 young friend of mine ; and of the strange ' kinks/ as you 

 call them, which got into my head between the fever and 

 the Doctor's opiates. Things were strangely mixed up, the 

 real and the unreal grouped and mingled in a manner that 

 gave to all the just proportions and appearance of sober 

 actualities. I remember them as distinctly, and they made 

 as deep and abiding impression upon my mind as if I had 

 seen them all. They are impressed as palpably and indeli- 

 bly upon my memory now as any actual events of my life." 



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