The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-05-14

their creaking, and the frogs their biting,
the mosquitoes had begun hnmmiug, sand
all went merry as marriage belle"-to |
her hash +! l was sleeping in my couch of |
couches like June bug in January, but |
L did not snore. l never snore. Every. |
body would do it, l presume, if it was
fashionable. But to resume.
AS l said, it was past midnight, and |
was dreaming of my country seat, "a stool
with three legs,) when l was startled sud-
denly by cold. clammy, shrimpy hand
upon my forehead | awoke and rose up
IN bed 10 discover a figure clothed in white
sitting upon my bed. He Il suppose lie
was he) held in his right hand Roman
candle burning blue, and in his left a sky
rocket; his eyes were glaring balls of red
fire, and he had two horns in his forehead,
besides several which he had taken in his
mouth. AS awoke he waived the torch
three times around his head and beckoned,
| like Hamlet's ghost, for me to follow him,
l arose from my bed and followed, entirely
in white He led me through winding
streets, up dark alleys, and finally brought
me to a graveyard. All this time he had
never, for moment, taken his eyes of
fire off me. Arrived in the centre of the
graveyard, beside an unburied skeleton be-
tween two thorn bushes, he shot off his
rocket, and glaring upon me, said:
"Mortuary mortal, l come from the
bloody den of the bob-tailed scorpions !
am ''the chiefest among 10000, and the
l altogether lovely Yon see before you
the specter of the Great Tribe of the De-
moniac Deathly Dragons l am sent to
warn, to defy, to drag you to danger
3ice the scorpions tongue has hissed 3ice
the dirge of death is done 3ice The bloody
grave has gaped Bebold!''
| i looked, and saw in letters of blood
upon the skeleton before me, and surround
ed by letters of fire:
eEI AM DED Ia
illustrated by coffins and daggers.)
l gazed IL horror, and exclaimed, In
pctrifed accents 81 believe ye my boy !"
and tainted
When I recovered myself (and my wal
let found that l was transported TO
subterranean dungeon beneath terra f,ma
1t had all the appearance of place that
was worse than The Place itself! There
were blue lights, blue feIIers and blue
! flames.
Even s'the lights burned blue y The
4 going paragraph states that. Any par
agraph going might state the same thing.
Brightly the "taller-die" candles "shonc
Ger (thorongh) fare women and brave
men -
When / had been taken inside the dan
geon, felt that I was dcnel was in>
troduced to a hard crowd in hard times
| They formed around me (the crowd and
not the times), and in a deep sepulchral
tone that shook the cave, said:
"Whence comes this mortuary mortal,
and is he trooly rural?''
My conductor answered for me, and
said in tones of thunder (and Eghtning):
''He can keep hotel he can sing like
martingale, swim like an angel, gamble
on the green, and is luil to the corps J.
''Let him pass" said the tycoon, who
thought hadn't ''full hand''
1 passed, and found myself in the in>
ner chamber, where l saw nothing but
thunder, the yells of demons and the rat
Ting of chains l heard nothing but
lightning, the flash of gunpowder and the
last ditch, and dreamed the dream of
the d(un)reary
A mangled corpse stood upon a pyramid
of skulls, and holding in his right hand a
coffin and in his left hand (pristine man)
couehin' two, he exclaimed:
''Mortal, I am the Bloody Butcher of
the Bogus Blunderers of Babylon. Swear
to keep our secrets. or dye
As didn't care to dye, swore.
Then / was tetotally surrounded by de-
mons as looked like devils, not one of
whom bought their shirts at Moody's, who
shrieked:
''He swears by the fiery fagon found in
ferocious furnaces by fellers from Felici-
ana that he does not, never did, and
never will again, so help him Felis !"
] was then stabbed by small sword,
which was held in the hands of every de-
mcn in pantalets around me, then drugged,
boiled in a caldron, set upon hot grid
iron, slid down gang plank, walked over
cakes of ice, mutilated in the hair of my
head, and finally tatooed and scalped
; was dragged through tubular boilers
to the tune of the "Rogue's March" strip
ped TO the suit of clothes in which l was
born, powdered to atoms, and told that
had a mission to perform TO all outside
bsrbarisns-which is to annihilate every
living thing, and TO kill every decade
member of soci T.. act seeded.
'Do you swear +
81 swear"
was then clothed with habiliments of
woe, thrust into den Of worms with cnly
one bottle of Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing
Syrup, and told to await the action of the
Impeachment Committee.