The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-07-04

hbhp III Adv ENIUhES WITH
THE X. X. X.
City Hotel,
Which it is in New Orleans,
April, 49,.
| have joined 'em. I am K. K. X. fell
low. l run the risk of dying some day Cor
night, but am going to unbosom myself
and make public expose ofthe X. K. X.
Once upon time, when night had
spread her sable mantilla DER the earth and
pinned it with moon, went to bed
People often go to bed at night, with the
exception of the X. X. X. s. who never go
to bed, and who never sleep. They have
ears, but they see not they have eyes, but
they hear not.
The clocks had tolled forth the hour of
twelve; the stuffed owl in the City Museum
had gone to roost; the statue of Andrew
Jackson reposed in silence the snakes had
ceased their croakings, and the frogs their
biting; the mosquitoes had begun hum
ming, and sail went merry as a marriage
bell''-to her hash. l was sleeping in my
couch of couches like June bug in Janu-
airy, but did not snore. l never snore.
Everybody would do it, 1 presume, if it
was fashionable. But to resume:
AS said, it was past midnight, and l
was dreaming Of my country seat "a stool
with three legs), when 1 was startled sud
denly by cold, clammy, shrimpy hand
upon my forehead. awoke and arose up
IN bed, to discover figure clothed in white
hing upon my bed. He Il suppose he
g he) held in his right hand a roman
vile, burning blue; and in his left a sky
Eet his eyes were cleaning balls of red
land he had two horns in his forehead,
Hes several which he had taken in his
@ tn. AS awoke, he waved the torch
siS times around his head and beckoned.
ss Hamlet's ghost, for me to follow him.
d Use from my bed and followed entire
!. s white. He led me through winding
It's, up dark alleys, and finally brought
36 grave yard. All this time he had
II ever, for moment, taken his eyes of fire
II me. Arrived in the center of the grave
i, beside an unburied skeleton between
thorn bushes, he shot off his rocket,
NJ Aglaring upon me, said:
aortuary MORTAL come from the
,Silen Of the 70 Tailed Scorpions.
am the chiefes' among 10000, and the
one altogether.ovely You see here, be-
fore you thespectre of the Great Tribe of
the demonac deathy Dragons. l am sent
to warn..o defy, to drag you to danger
Thricefhe scorpions tongue has Kissed
thricethe bloody grave has gaped. Behold!
TlGoked, and saw in letters of blood |
upon the skeleton before me, and surround
I ed by letters oftire,
~ AM DEAF, -s$E1
illustrated by collins and daggers.)
gazed in horror, and exclaimed in pet
rified accents: 81 believe ye, my boy" and
tainted.
,,S Nv / recovered myself (and my Wallet
that was transported to subter-
dungeon beneath terra .7flma. 1t
the appearances Of place, that
worse than the place ITSELF There
blue lights, blue fellers and blue
l4ca The lights burned blue.s The
g5oing paragraph states that. Any para
Graph might state the same thing.
," Brightly the "taller dip" candies "shone
DER (through) fare women and brave menw
When had been taken inside tn"
geoI felt that was done.
b, ! was introduced tor - dun
Zines. They form
saS+ the tin lard crowd in hard
zone Led around me, the crowd,
a --es-and in a deep, sepulchral
q mat shook the cave, said:
CA "Whence comes this mortuary mortual,
" and is he trooly rural %
My conductor answered for ne, and sa id,
in tones of thunder-and lightning
"He can keep hotel; he can sing like
martingale, swim like an angel, gamble
A on the green, and is loil to the corps
Il "Let him pass" said the Tycoon, who
"a thought / hadn't a "full hand"
- nocce1 and foun1 mvsnlfin tbn innor
chamber, where saw nothing but thun.
der, the yells of demons and the rafting
B of chains heard nothing but lightning,
the flash of gunpowder and the last ditch,
lAand dreamed the dreams of the dreamy
A mangled corpse stood upon pyramid
of skulls, and holding in his right hand q
coffin and in his left hand (pristine MANI
coughin' two, exclaimed
"Mortual, am the Bloody Butcher of
the bogus blunderers of Babylon. Swear
10 keep our secret or dye!"
AS didn't care to dye, swore
Then | was teetotally surrounded by
demons as looked like devils, not one of
whom bought their shirts at McCown's,
who shrieked:
"He swears 10y the fiery tlagon found in
ferocious furnaces by fellers from Felicana,
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-
mon in pantalets around me, then drugged,
boiled in a cauldron, set upon hot grid
iron, slid down gang-plank, walked over
cakes of ice, mutilated by the hair of my
head, and finally tatooed and scalped
was dragged through tubular boilers to
the tune of the "Rogue's March," stripped
to the suit Of clothes in which was born,
powdered to atoms, and told that had a
mission to perform to all outside barbarians
/ which it was to annihilate every living
thing, and to kill every decade member Of
society. l act seeded.
do you swear ~
q ~ swear!n
Il was then clothed in habiliments ofwoc
thrust into den of worms with only one
bottle of Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup
and told to await the action of the Impcach-
ment Committee.
q The Skull of Shakespeare.
A certain French Baron, whose scientif
ic tastes led him to collect the skulls OF
celebrated persons, one day received Wis.
it from man with whom he was accus
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