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Hoku now hurriedly turned to me. "You hully up, bling me one pair bellows pletty quick!" he commanded. I ran into his room and brought the bellows from his fireplace.
If I looked to that side, I might have sung with the Hawaiian poet: Ua maomao ka lani, ua kahaea luna, Ua pipi ka maka o ka hoku.
"Ghost now change from spilit to matter, and comes under legality of matter as usual science." "What are you going to do with her?" I asked. "Send him to Buddhist temple in Japan. Old pliest use him for high celemony," was the answer. My next desire was to obtain some of Hoku Yamanochi's ghost-powder and analyze it.
At last the transfer was effected and the receptacle securely stoppered and sealed. "In formeryore-time," Hoku explained to me, "old pliests sucked ghost with mouth and spit him to inside of vase with acculacy. Modern-time method more better for stomach and epiglottis." "How long will this ghost keep?" I inquired. "Oh, about four, five hundled years, maybe," was his reply.
A particularly revolting murder having been committed in San Francisco, my friend Hoku Yamanochi applied for the house, and, after the police had finished their examination, he was permitted to occupy it for a half-year at the ridiculous price of three dollars a month. He invited me to share his quarters, which were large and luxuriously furnished. For a week, nothing abnormal occurred.
These astral bodies, therefore, fail to terrify the Buddhists, who know them only as shadows, with no real volition. The Japs, in point of fact, have learned how to exterminate them. There is a certain powder, Hoku informed me, which, when burnt in their presence, transforms them from the rarefied, or semi-spiritual, condition to the state of matter.
She crawled under my bed and ran about the room, endeavoring to escape, but was pursued by Hoku, who waved his smoking plate with indefatigable patience and dexterity. At last he had her cornered, and the specter was caught behind a curtain of odorous fumes. Slowly the figure grew more distinct, assuming the consistency of a heavy vapor, shrinking somewhat in the operation.
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