Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-02-24

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sne one sf s~r~a
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snt- shsrpay-
-Yez have is.rst No essa .ss-
ners in the grave
Il coafe-s the hrreding there s
none of the be-s
Which accounts for the intrusive
character of gheses. Peessoe-
-You presume, wcndroosly, on
my for.,ear.Dce. Don't speak of in
trusion-you have intruded. with un>
seemly alacrity, into my shoes-ouly
one month dead"
That's Q matter of taste and Ger
emony; and l am not to be taught
manners by q corpse"
"You should bow to its greater ex-
perience-and may well he taught
prudence, at least, by me. in court.
"The evidence Of such a witness
will not be taken."
"You can't know, Prig, till you
try"
zone of two things, now," cried
Prig, impatient to get directly to the
bottom of the mystery; "you are
either dead, or alive; if alive, you
are not Rig, for he died and was bu-
ried; if dead you are not Rig, neither
having forfeited oil hold on this
eorth, by becoming a citizen of an
other world, though Appearing again
in full rig, in this. AbominabIe! if
people can die when they please, and
come back when they please, giving
up and recla:ming rights and privi-
leges, without regard to the convent
ence of others, whom they have thus
led into difficulty, and undertaking
to straddle two stages of existence at
the same time"
"It is unusual" replied the sup.
positional Rig; "but not necessarily
improper, for the dead to rise and
insist on their rights; death may
have been their misfortune, not their
fault"
"YQu may he correct: but before
I decide, since you insist that you are
Rig, convince ME by giving me some
of your experience while in the
grave"
"What audacity! But Mrs. Rig
will take it out of you, yet"
"What audacity in a ghost, and a
very homely one too, thus to con-
front and affronta living man, weigh
ing thirteen stone"
"You were never dead; therefore
you would be unable to tell if I spoke
the truth" ..
"You were never dead, or you
couldn't be here.'
"You were never dead, and so no
judge Of that"
II am as likely to have been dead
as you are."
"Dead to q eense of propriety, or
you would not have married my wife
so soon," retorted the rigorous rep
resentative of the rigid Rig; "but
yours is mere carnal reasoning, while
mine is supernatural and your only
way to show that yours is equal to
mine, is for you, Prig. to prove that
you, too, have died, BY relating what
you knew after being buried. We
can then argue on something like
equal ground; but if you cannot, it
will signify that you never died, and
ore therefore unfit to cope with one
who has had fearfully greater expe-
riences, like myself"
81 must admit that I hare never
died, to my knowledge; I may have
sometime, when I was aaleep, and
been hurled and dug up ae.in,
without nv knowledge ~ reeolIec-
ton; bat I thisk Il unlikely. As
10 yos, II ven hsve died ycs sre, by
yoar ooaSessioa- e~r-urscd; and
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