Rhyme? and reason? . And still he seemed to grow more white,More vapoury, and wavier— Seen in the dim and flickering: lisht, As he proceeded to recite His Maxims of Behaviour. CANTO II, JSgs dFgbe Ifculea. My First—but dont suppose, he said, Im setting you a riddle—Is—if your Victim be in bed,Dont touch the curtains at his head,But take them in the middle, And wave them slowly in and out, While drawing them asunder;And in a minutes time, no doubt,Hell raise his head and look aboutWith eyes of wrath and wonder. And here you must on no pretence Make the first for the Victim to c
Rhyme? and reason? . And still he seemed to grow more white,More vapoury, and wavier— Seen in the dim and flickering: lisht, As he proceeded to recite His Maxims of Behaviour. CANTO II, JSgs dFgbe Ifculea. My First—but dont suppose, he said, Im setting you a riddle—Is—if your Victim be in bed,Dont touch the curtains at his head,But take them in the middle, And wave them slowly in and out, While drawing them asunder;And in a minutes time, no doubt,Hell raise his head and look aboutWith eyes of wrath and wonder. And here you must on no pretence Make the first for the Victim to commence:No Ghost of any common senseBegins a conversation. HYS FYVE RULES. I I. If he should say \How came you hereV (The way that you began, Sir,)In such a case your course is clear— On the bats back, my little dear /Is the appropriate answer. If after this he says no more, You d best perhaps curtail yourExertions—go and shake the door,And then, if he begins to snore, You 11 know the things a failure. I 2 PHANTASMA GORIA. By day, if he should be alone— At home or on a walk—You merely give a hollow groan,To indicate the kind of toneIn which you mean to talk. But if you find him with his friends, The thing is rather such a case success dependsOn picking up some candle-ends,Or butter, in the larder. With this you make a kind of slide (It answers best with suet),On which you must contrive to glide,And swing yourself from side to side—?One soon learns how to do it. The Second tells us what is right In ceremonious calls :— First burn a blue or crimson light(A thing I quite forgot to-night), Then scratch the door or walls!
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