The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-04

IN all the ghasty corruption of the silent tomb %
Yes; IL smell just that LISTS rather
awful"
The fact is, that the pyroligneous ether has
singular charnel-house kind of smell, and ap-
proaches nearer to the peculiar odor from graves
than anything else | am aware of.
=, " There, again !" suddenly cried Doctor --,
g did you hear p?
Yes" said |, I" a rushing sound"
"Ye-yes," faltered Harrington d" | heard it
MY dear sir" | said, q you will coon be graft
fed. | hope you will not again ask for such an
exhibition, for | know it will be days before the
impression leaves my mind"
Yes; it is certainly very dreadful" said Har-
rington.
was beginning to be disappointed that our pa
tlent did not back out of the experiment before this,
for was scarcely prepared to go any further and
how to show him anything that would do for
ghost, could not conceive on the spur of the mo-
ment pretended to be busy about the room, and
as passed Doctor -, whispered
:. When l say, now it's coming put out the
light, Doctor -"
He nodded assent and went to a drawer In
which were some astrological specimens and se-
lected finely-whitened and well-arLiculated arm,
with all the fingers very perfect.
Now it's coming" said !, and at that moment
Doctor - put out the light.
-" The lights gone out" cried Harrington
Hilloa! Light-light."
gave deep grOan.
" nat 3 tilht E! ne cried ell Doctor
where are You! don't like this. God bless me
how very dark-eh! What! Didn't you speak
What an odd smell Really, now, I-ek %
Another groan.
g Somebody in pain, Doctor -. saw. Doctor
-, upon second thoughts, do you know, / think
you-you need not trouble yourself After all, it's
better to-to leave ghosts alone"
Here made most unearthly noise, which near
lY threw Doctor into fits of laughter, which he
was nearly smOthered in suppressGg
tbara rifl H. q
to see That'll do. Let them 60 | saw, I'm
done with them. Hoa, there help murder
good God murder
glided behind Doctor IS chair, and giving
him lucfer match, | said
Light the lamp again"
He did So and l. having the skeleton arm in NV
hand, placed the long bony fingers over Doctor
IS shoulder.
Mr.. Harrington turned his eyes towards the
light, and the first thing he saw was the seeming
hand OF skeleton grasPing the shoulder of Doctor
" The Lord help US - he cried, making spring
to the door. There's one there's one !"
Now, it never struck me that Doctor - was a
nervous man himself, and did not know what |
was doing at all, and when Harrington, with hor-
TOR depicted on his countenance, called out There's
one there's one {" he thought it merely the effect
ot an excited imagination, and he said
"Where, Mr.. Harringto ?"
Help ered Harrington, trying to open the
uoof winch mad locked, :" on your shoulder
Doctor - turned his eyes to his shoulder, and
saw the hand apparently playing with his collar,
upon which, to my surprise, he gave great lump,
and upset the table, lamp and every thing else,
coming down in the midst of the ruins himself with
a great crash.
ran and unlocked the door, dragging Harring-
ton out with me, who seemed petrifed with terror.
In quarter of an hour afterwards bade Mr..
Harrington goodbye al my door, when said to
him
of ghosts. should advise you to take trip to he
continent, and amuse yourself
find entered in my diary, about six months
after
Oct. lOLh.-Note from Harrington, the ghost.
seeker, dated Florence, running thus
My dear sir-I promised to write to you, and do so
WIN great pleasure that shall be in England by
Christmas, by, begin think was itte cracked
about that ghost business quite ashamed of it,