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He then said, let the Pale face drink sum yarb tea. I drinkt it, and it really helpt me. I've writ to this talented savige this time thro' the same mejum, but as yet I hain't got any answer. Perhaps he's in a spear where they haint' got any postage stamps. But thanks to careful nussin, I'm improvin rapid. The Town Hall was jam-full of peple, mostly Irish citizens, and the enthusiasm was immense.
"It's one of thim unchancy days that might be annything. Have ye looked at the glass?" "It's mejum," replied the first speaker. She was a vast woman, with a broad, kindly face, lit by shrewd and twinkling blue eyes, dressed, as was her custom, in a starched blue print, with a snowy apron. "Mejum only. But I don't feel comferable at that there bank of clouds, Murty."
Two years ago comin this May, I had a 'tack of fever-'n-ager, and by the advice of Miss Peasley who continues single and is correspondinly unhappy in the same ratios I consulted a Spiritul mejum a writin' mejum. I got a letter from a cel'brated Injin chief, who writ me, accordin to the mejum, that he'd been ded two hundred and seventeen years, and liked it.
"But folks ort to be mejum in figgers of speech, Josiah, and not go too fur." "Do you think, Samantha, that anybody can go too fur in describin' them fool skirts, and them slit skirts, and the immodesty and indecensy of some of them dresses?" "I don't know as they can," sez I, sadly. "Jest look at that thing," sez he again.
Stone, while I tell you this. The fake mejum that Miss Ames went to see yesterday afternoon, was none other than friend Hanlon himself!" "What? Fibs, are you sure?" "Sure as shootin'! I spotted him the minute he came up to Mrs, Embury's. I didn't reckernize him at first as the whiskered Moses, but I did later. You know, Mr.
If they want to be so fashionable, as to try to live out doors and in the house too, that is none of my business. And of course it looked dretful ornimental and pretty. But I will say this, it haint bein' mejum. I should rather live either out doors, or in the house, one of the 2. But I am a eppisodin'. And to resoom.
He had left no address. Where did his furniture go? Nowhere; he'd left it behind. Was any one in the house acquainted with him? Mrs. Marron in the other ground-floor flat had tried to be. Not much luck, she thought. Mrs. Marron was voluble, ignorant, and a willing source of information. "The perfessor? Sure! I knew'm. 'Twas me give'm the name. He was a Mejum. Naw! Not for money.
Too swell for that. But a real-thing Mejum. A big one; one of the kind it comes to, nacheral. Spirit-rappin's! Somethin' fierce! My kitchen window is on the air-shaft. So's his. Many's the time in the still evenin's I've heard the rap-rap-rappin' on his window an' on the wall, but mostly on the window. Blip! out of the dark. It'd make you just hop!
Daddles cut a large slice in evident delight. Gregory ate it, slowly and thoughtfully. "Have some more?" The Gauger held out his plate. "Jes' mejum," said he. After breakfast, we of the "Hoppergrass" held a council. "The Captain will come back to Bailey's Harbor," said Jimmy Toppan, "but we can't go there at all. We'll have to go somewhere else, and send a message to him."
"You'd be the first to 'go off," said I, banteringly. Harris agreed. "She is neuropathic." "I propose we start a psychic society here and now," said Cameron. "I'll be president, Mrs. Quigg secretary, and Garland can be the director of the awful rites. Miss Brush, you shall be the 'mejum." "Oh no, no!" she cried, "please let some one else be it."
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