Rhyme? and reason? . And still he seemed to grow more white,More vapoury, and wavier— Seen in the dim and flickering ligTit, As he proceeded to recite His Maxims of Behaviour. CANTO 11. My First—but dont suppose, he sad, I m 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, ^Vhile drawing them asunder ;And in a minutes time, no doubt,Hell raise his head and look aboutWith eyes of wrath and wonde:. And here you must on no pretence Make the first observation.\Vait for the Victim to commence :No Ghost
Rhyme? and reason? . And still he seemed to grow more white,More vapoury, and wavier— Seen in the dim and flickering ligTit, As he proceeded to recite His Maxims of Behaviour. CANTO 11. My First—but dont suppose, he sad, I m 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, ^Vhile drawing them asunder ;And in a minutes time, no doubt,Hell raise his head and look aboutWith eyes of wrath and wonde:. And here you must on no pretence Make the first observation.\Vait for the Victim to commence :No Ghost of any common sense-Begins a conversation. HWS FYVE If he should say Wfoio came yon hete V (The way that you began, Sir,)In such a case your course is clear— On tJie bafs back, my lit He dca?-! Is the appropriate answer. If after this he says no more, Youd best perhaps curtail yourExertions—go and shake the door,And then, if he begins to snore, Youll know the things a failure. 12 PHANTASMAGORIA. By day, if be 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 slidj (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 hum a blue or cri?nson lig/ir*(A thing I quite forgot to-night), The?i scratch the door or wal/s
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