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The Letheon

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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We have taken t; we linve had a deliinl extracted under inilnence, and this was the way of it. We took our seat on a lar-ge chair, nnd took into our mouth a Inrge tube, whícíh conveyet! the gas! VVo cominencecl inspiring and eoughing at the same time, As our inspirations grew mere regular, our coughing ceascd, nnd we began to Iosr our conciousness. T hen we began to hear a noise of a thousand nail milis. - 'f hen we seemed to bo riding upon a railroad, along whicli niyriaj ears I were thundering, and we were going laster and fasier tito a blaek void, in which were loud noisos, as of un earthquake. Then we thought, "we will teil of ihis;" and were framing vvhat figure uf speech wo iliouUl use in dcserib:ng lliat jarringjthunderous noise, when weslapsed away, and Ibund all quieï. We were upou an island. Suinmer brealhed over the blue waters; odors, a;i ot' Eden,ui;ulc the air faint with thcir luxurv. Muajcal fbuutains plashed in rnarble basins - birds sang in coul groves. Away down a vista, overarched whh climbing roses, a whJe palace upreured its walls. We were lying faint and languid-, but joy ful, gazing down thi.s vista. Over us bent anold man, who gazeJ inquiringly into our face. Just then a bevy of maiduns carne caperinü; along in graceful sport 1 wnrds aa. Wo laughed at thcir glec:and they, in revenge, iittpnipted to bind us With roses. V0 put up our hands to save ourselves iVoni such a calamity, and awolie,wiih our hnnds finnly clasping the a ni of tho operator, who had jus! tracled the tooth. The (irst thing ive 1 cognised, was a picture smiling apon us l'ivni the wall, wliicli was that f the old man of our visión. After the tooth was out, of coin-se cama the lassitude consequent unon the

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Signal of Liberty
Old News