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center, then sail around and work up the outside. I 

 told them- before I started it was only an experiment. 

 I made it go so well it shocked them, and it was felt 

 for manj miles away. I told tbem I would try it 

 again the next Saturday night. When the time came 

 I was there at my post. The house was closed ; no 

 getting in. There was no one around only the neigh- 

 bors, with one exception, and that man was John Cor- 

 win. I had shocked them all away but him. He told 

 me the people thought I was crazy. I told him that 

 was nothing. They would soon recover fjom that. 

 They were only shocked a little. On this experiment 

 I came near sailing into the lunatic asylum. Some 

 thought I ought to be taken care of, and yet I had 

 harmed no man. Well, it was only a lot of bigots and 

 peaked heads. I think there is not much danger yet. 

 It spread over quite a large field that I was crazy. 

 There was one that took great pains to tell this all 

 over. He had kept it up for more than a year, so I 

 thought I would try another experiment. This is 

 where I experimented on lying, to see bow fast it 

 would multiply, and how far they would sail. This 

 man's name was Mr. Yorhees. I had done his shoe- 

 ing for many years. I liked him, and do now, and he 

 liked my work. I went to my shop. There were 

 several there sitting around. I told them I had bad 

 news to tell them. " What's up now ?" 



" Mr. Vorhees is crazy !" 



Some made one remark, some another. All told 

 what the cause must be of his losing his reason. In a 

 few hours it was many miles away, multiplying, spread- 

 ing. It had started, and there was no stopping it It 



