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voud, as | soon found, while STRUGGLING tn
hose sheet or some such thing in which I
was scantily enveloped. Ny hand would NOT
reach INV head when attempted to do so. bv
reason OF my elbow touching the bottom. and
my hand the top of the enclosure round me-
1t was the attempting to do this, and findinr
myself naked, except with the aforesaid COW
ering, that struck me | I'D been entombcd alive.
The thought rushed suddenly upon me. Nv
/ first sensations were those of simple surnrise
| was like a child aroused out of deeD sleep
and not sufficiently awake to recognize its at
! tendants.
When the truth flashed upon me in all jts
fearful energy, never can forget the thrill of
horror that struck through me. 1t was as if Il
bullet had penetrated my heart and all the blood
/ IN my body had gushcd through the wound
Never, never can he'll be more terrible than
the sensation Of hatmoment. Law motlonlcss
for time, petrified with terror Then clom-
my dampness burst forth from every part Of INV
body. My doom seemed inevitable and s.,
strong at length became this impression, so be-
reit OF hope appeared my situation that uti-
matcly recovered from it only to plunge in TIN.
depth OF calm, resolute despair. As not the
ialntcst ray Of hope could penetrate the dark
ness around my soul, resignation to Inv fate
followed.
| begin to think of death coolly. and to cal,
culnte how long might survive before famine
closed the hours OF my existence. | pravcd
that | might have fortltude to die without re-
pnlng. Calmly az then felt, I tried to re-.
member how long man could exist without
food Thus the tranquility of nv despair made
me comparatively easy, if contrasted with the
situation in which | felt myself afterwards,
when hope began to glimmer upon me. Nv
days must in the end be numbercd-I must die
at last i was only perlshng little sooner
'han | otherwise must have done. Even from
uhS thought derived consolation; and nov
tnlnk lie might have closed calmly upon mo.
1t the pangs OF hunger had been at all baarablr;
ana nave been told that they are much more
90 than is commonly believed.
II my memory serves Inc correctly. this cain,
state of mind did not last long. Reason soon
began to whisper to me that if had been bp.
red, and the earth closed around nv coffin.
should not be able to rcspire which could now
do with ease. did not of course, dream of
the vault IN which was placed. but considered
at first had been buried in earth. The free
do'n OF respiration gave me the idea that after
all was 10 carried forth for intermon,. bu,
tnat was about to be borne to the crave. AMI
that there should be sutiocated incvn.b.v -
ouch Is the inconsistency Of the human r,.u:,
that |. who had Just now resigned myselft- 10
BY famine. imarinod This nomon.or,, ,r,,5,
death hundred times ,nora fnrn,;doiIo u,.a
idea that | was not vet hnr;nI ;ncrn,,oa .i,,
anxiety TO be heord from, n;,bo,t oa1'ni
aloud and struck the s;dr- orI iid or tho cn+f,,
to no purpose. till I was bo,rso and f,,;(,1aI
bnt al in vain. A stiIlv s;lonco ro;nod osannh
me amid the uubrokcn d,rlnoss
was now steencd in fc,rfnI o,ror,. 1,,.;o,
ed with horror. and nInnrcI M, MI.
sides and wounded then Tjha rI,i'r ,,,,
soaked in my blood and hv tcar,,r tha ,roaJ
en- Sides of nv nris,n with ;h, ,',., ,,,,;oal
feeling. [ laccrated n,,, fnrors a,,I ,''>.n ,h,
nails TO the quick md soon hoc,rno ,,o.o,n,
from exhaustion Tbnn 7 ,yas ,,,'.,IIf a,,s1'
moro. called alord m,, v;f,'s rr,,.aJ
and fear blasnhomed t6r l,mnn ,. ,.La,' LSr'
said: and tins continued r"tiI NV, et,o",T
left me. and nature onco nova sanr::I,. so,,io,i
ishmcnt in tcmporarv insnn.ihi1i+,,
At this time b,i Vision 81 :, mos. ,,r3oc
nab!c character ~, wos ono onJ nnt uian ui,,e
as am induced to th;rl; if was ho.eo,' '"',I' ,I
portals Of death INTO tha worJ nt s,,;,;,, ''i y.
was all shameless ard tGrrIoss I,,ai,o, 't,,a,.
and women. oftor nunberInss IN ''., ,'','t =.