The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-11


Betty-Polly -Jenny-E, iza-both -my-my-
: my-salts-sa lts-oh-eh-a -eh-ol
-oh!-fm fainting-Tm fainting!-rm gone
Pm gone!-oh--s h--oh!
Sweetest lady! / acknowledge my offence tc
be heinous in the extreme, but as an excuse fol-
having mentioned what gentlemen of the toga
would style call that and those the aforesaid in
strument," pause for single moment you
pass upon me sentence Of condemnation; hear the
reason Of my attempting to mention with favor
so db0nl1labfe practice. Do you, dearest lady,
feel at all interested in my story? Am | so bles-
sed as to have afforded you the slightest degree
! of amusement, or to have raised in your gentle
mind one single wish to know the fate of the in
| dIviduals have introduced to your notice? Am
| | SO happy! If so, sweet lady, pardon nv vulgar
allusion. | have Just been Iaboring under a
most excruciating toothache; l spent the whole
of this alternoonapplying remedies; tried every
| remedy human ingenuity could suggest, exeept
extraction, for which, though blush to confess
it, wanted courage, and all to purpose.
Brandy, cloves, red hot wire, kreosote, OPIUM
Sc all without success, and in the agony of pain
lady, you might have lost this story, original
MS and all, for the paroXysm was violent,
that l csuld hardly restrain myself from throw
ing my papers, pens, and ink into the fire, when
my wife, dear angel, recommended pipe of to-
bacco. She had heard me once before mention
smoke as a very certain remedy for toothache,
and now proposed its trial. Be not surprised
lady; you know, without being reminded by me,
what self-denial, what sacrifices your lovely sex
are capable of submitting to with cheerfulness
for those they love. l followed my wife's advice,
and ere my head was completely developed in
cloud of smoke, the pain had left me And let
me REMIND you, dear reader, that am not the
first who owed their relief from this course o.
aches" to "pipe of common tobacco"
Now, reader, if you happen to belong to the
less timid sex, and if you have ever dared to
m a11as ciaI-
ly cold coffee is the best possible accompaniment
to your enjoyment Malt will destroy the flavor
of the very best Cavendish; punch is too apt to
"Baotianize" the intellect; wine, even as ncgus,
not the thing at all; bat cool coffee is delicious
perfectly heavenly. Oh, what truly sublime
occupation for philosopher What fund of
thought must be thus generated! What can
equal the pipe in promoting that tranquility of
mind and body; that harmony of feeling, and
briliancy OF idea, essential to the poet or the
sage.
Aohmet is muttering to himself between every
blast of his pipe. Listen! l think heard him
utter his daughters name. Hush!
"Leila-hum-womana are puzzles-puG, puff
puf-Shitan must possess them all-puf puff
and my daughter in partIcular-Puf, puf-well-
looking powerful, and wealthy withal-puf, puff
puf-what more can she waRt-puff, puff
obstinacy, by Allah-puf, puff, puf-women will
have their own way-puf-I will have mine in
this instance, however-puf, puff, puff Won
der who Falri is puff, puff, puff-and where he
came from-puf-nons -puff-perhaps
lie is Frank rencgado-puf, puf-by Allah, he
has Frankish puf-whether Frank or
Shitan himself, he has much gold-puff-a fine
eStablishneRt-puh puff, puff should be Justly
proud of such wealthy sonin-law-puff, puff,
puf-she is foolishly fond Of that fellow, Hussein
puff, puf-a fine boy-puf, puff-loves the
girl-puff, puff-beggar though-puH, puff
both puf-would never do-puf, puff
poverty would soon come in at the door-puff-
and then love would fly out at the window-puf,
puf-as Falri says-Puf, puA-won't do-pufi,
what a learned man Falri isl wonder if it be
true that the earth moves-puf, puf-F'alri says
some great philosopher of FRANCISCAN discovered
it-puff, puf.-can't be-puf,-no, no-puf-we
should all fall about if it were true-Puf. puff
besides, the prophet saith otherwise, thanks be
to Allah-puff, puf-hope Falri is not Giaour
puff, puff-wears the turban OF the true belize
ver-puff, puff-never saw him at the mosque
puff, puff-goes to some other-puf, puff
Leila will make him more pious-puf-ha he
not gold-puh-sh, that he were my son-in-lsw
puff, puff, puff, puff Continues to smoke in
silence)
But it is possible, dearest reader, that you
NAV not be quite so fond of smoking as Achmet
il, or as am; SO let us leave him to his nedita-
tons, enjoying himself with his hookah and coffee,
and coming over the various circumstances in
favor of his Leila's marriage with Falri, and
his rejection of Hussein's addresses, which we
have seen are chiefly the wealth of the former
and the poverty OF the latter.
What is Falri about all this while? We can
easily learn; for behold, we are even now hover
ing above his chamber; here, here, in this soli-
tary turret, far from all fear of interruption.
Strange, is it not, that he should select such
cheerless, solitary apartment, when his gorgeous
" furnished house, indeed palace, might have
afforded many chambers so much more cemiorta-
BILE. Scanty, indeed, is the furniture of his
apartment. In the centre stands low marble
table; no carpet covers the floor; no cushions
offer repese to the occupant of the cherries
chamber; on the walls are hung retorts crucibles,
alembics, Charters, forceps, &c; skins OF various
ANIMALS and reptiles; bones of men and brutes;
in short, all the customary apparatus of the o.
cult philosopher. Upon the marble table in the
centre of the room is placed a chatting dish of
silver, containing charcoal glowing almost Is a
white heat. This, save a single small window
in the roof, is the only source of light. Beside
the marble table stands man arrayed in a shirt
of leopard-slin, fringed with gold, his head is
uncovered, and his long, dark hair and beard are
hanging in disorder about hia facej his counte-
nance IS pale as death; his lips white, bloodless,
and firmly compressed together; both arms are
barred to the elbow, and smeared with recent
blood, which he has taken from bowl beside
the chatting dish. The magician, for such we
must now regar1 him, holds in his hand drawn
sword, with which, previously dipped in the
bowl of blood, he draws circle of about nine feet
in diameter around himself, the table, and the
chatting dish, meanwhile muttering to himself
powerful spells in a foreign tongae. He then in
scribes mystic characters equal distances round
the circumference ofhe circle he points his bloody
weapon to tine north to the south, to the east, to
the west; he throws a red powder every now and
then into the chatter, and chaunts meanwhile in
strange tongue, monotonous rhyme, of which
the import is barely distinguishable.
-i Fearless and terrible,
Gloomy and horrible,
Lord of the mighty ones,
Come forth to me.
Hing of the world below.