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and a great deal more in the same language; and one boy said it was Ponca, and meant that Mr. Wendell Parnell would discuss the Irish question in Holden basement. Another said it had just come over from Assos, and was a Christmas card designed by Agamemnon. But whatever it was, my aunt swooned at the sight and was carried to the college hospital, where, surrounded by luxury and a circle of happy friends, she died."

"How about the other brother?"

"Well, he went at 4 1/2 P.M. and got the Aberrate, and came home and sat down and began to read it; and pretty soon his hair stood up on both ends, and turned gray; his eyes started from his head and only hung by the stems, and before I could save him he had fallen into the fire and was consumed."

"What was he reading?" inquired the Lamprey.

"Oh! it was an awful, fiendful tale. I shudder to repeat it, yet I will: -

"'There were two fellows, Jack and another fellow, who went out to take a walk, and they came to a house, and they went in, and there was a woman who had a husband and a newspaper, and they sat down -'"

"Desist, I pray thee! If thou lov'st me, cease," cried the Lamprey, as he leaped terror-stricken from his chair. "Me frozen marrow creeps backwards in me veins! Oh! awfullest agony of horror, now I know thee!" and, leaving him there crouched in delirious frenzy behind a Tabular View, the Ibex gracefully poised his wings and circled towards Carl's.