A CURIOUS DREAM. 



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spasmodic rheumatism that originally killed her if she exposed herself to the night 

 air much. She was named Hotchkiss — Anna Matilda Hotchkiss — you might know 

 her? She has two upper front teeth, is tall, but a good deal inclined to stoop, one 

 rib 'on the left side gone, has one shred of rusty hair hanging from the left side of 

 her head, and one little tuft just above and a little forward of her right ear, has 

 her under jaw wired on one side where it had worked loose, small bone of left 



forearm gone — lost 

 kind of' swagger 

 'gallus' way of going 

 bo and her nostrils 

 been pretty free and 

 damaged and bat- 

 looks like a queens- 

 ■ — maybe you have 

 "God forbid ! " 

 ejaculated, for 

 looking for that 

 and it caught me a 

 But I hastened to 

 my rudeness, and 

 meant I had not 

 I would not delib- 

 courteously ofa 

 You were saying 



in a fight — has a 

 in her gait and a 

 with her arms akim- 

 i n the a i r — h a s 

 easy, and is all 

 tered up till she 

 ware crate in ruins 

 met her ? " 

 I involuntarily 

 somehow I was not 

 form o f question, 

 little off my guard. 

 make amends for 

 say, "I simply 

 had the honor — for 

 erately speak dis- 

 friend of yours. 



that you were rob- 

 bed—and it was a shame, too— but it appears by what is left of the shroud you 



have on that it was a costly one in its day. How did " 



A most ghastly expression began to develop among the decayed features and 

 shrivelled integuments of my guest's face, and I was beginning to grow uneasy and 

 distressed, when he told me he was only working up a deep, sly smile, with a wink 

 in it, to suggest that about the time he acquired his present garment a ghost in a 

 neighboring cemetery missed one. This reassured me, but I begged him to confine 

 himself to speech thenceforth, because his facial expression was uncertain. Even 



