Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-02-23
For the Cedar Falls Gazette.
The Doctor Turns Medium, and the ''Spe.
retS" Dictate Thus:

Once on morning wet and dreary,
IaWakehed weak and weary,
With a fearful, throbbing headache
from the effects OF the night before.
While lay there dozing, mapping,
suddenly there came a tapping,
AS of some one gently rapping,
Rapping at my office door.
'Tis the Porter there" muttered,
Rapping mt my office door;
Only THIS and nothing more"
And the lazy, slow, uncertain
Rustling OF a very dirty curtain,
Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic
Fancies. never felt before;
So that, now to still the shaking
OF my hands, kept on taking
cocktails, stfong-my own making.
S.ili the rapping nt my door!
" lis some paSSer there" muttercd,
"Rapp.ng at my ofii .e door;
Merely this, and nothing more"
Presently my nerves grew stronger,
Hesitatinn then no longer,
"S!r,' said hold on a minute;
Your forgivness implore;
But the fact is was dressing,
And, you no great haste expressing,
Neither business very pressing,
waited till I'd finished"
Here opened wide the door.
Dev-lish cold there
And nothing more.
Out into the cold hall peering,
Seeing nothing, nothing hearing,
stood there shivering in the cold
Cold as Cleveland on lake Eries shore;
But the silence was unbroken-
The cold hall gave mary" token.
The only word there spoken
Was the single word | swOre:
Yes, own 1t: and the echo
Answered back the word swore:
Merely this, and nothing more
Back into my Office turning,
assayed to start my fire burning,
When again | heard the tapping
something louder than before
Hark !! said L. who the ID
(Surely meaning nothing evil,
AS l always do the civil,
Is that at my office door?
" no such rtiIHDiiS now Is making
So early at my Office door?
lis some loafer, nothing more.
"Come in" In moment, more or less.
Walked Bohemian OF the press
With gait unsteady, look ing thirsty
More SO than he ever looked before.
Not moment stopped or staid he;
a very slight obeisance made he;
His hat upon the table laid he,
Then reached above my wardrobe door,
Reached and took my only bottle,
That stood above my wardrobe door:
Took 1t, shook it, and something more.
Quickly TO the table turning,
In his face his whole soul yeurning
For drink, took up the tumbler
The one had just used before,
Ana the bottle quick invcrting
The contents in the goblet squirting
In IL manner not at all diverting
To me, until his glass ran DER,
In Il manner not ut all diyertinp:
This he did, ana something more
lie put i'll bitters. then the syrup:
The Whole together did he stir up
In II" "McPlersOn- cocktail" hugt:
This he tasted DER and DER.
Sucii powers OF suction lie displayed
That looked on agaSt, disinayed,
1hat such sad havoc should lie made
Of my cherished stock and store:
Such sad and wantUn havoc
OF my pettied stock and store
But the quidaunc only took the more!
" Be that act our sign of parting.
You thirsty nend!' shrieked, upstarting
Get thee back into thy musty newsrooin
With scraps anu exchanges filtered Ger
Leave no unpaid bU as a token
Ot promises you have spoken
90 creduiOus taiiors), TO be broken.
Take thy form from ont my door;
Take thy beak from out my tumbler;
Put back the bottle above my duor!"
Quoth the 4utttnaRc, Give IN some more ~
Ana the qudnanc, never budging.
sun drank the mixture. be.sruiging,
Cntii his pins grew quite unsteady,
And he sank down ny the door:
And his eyes had all the seeming
VI a topper who was dreaming;
And Inaudlln tears down streaming
Trickled on the IN tilted door;
But another drink from out that bottle,
Ihat lies beside him on the floor,
viii yet, ah! never more.