Doesticks, What He Says

ks came to

revealed by accommodating "Spirits" through the "Medium" of those crack-brained masculine women

ord Byron didn't write it; Napoleon wasn't consulted about it; Cardinal Richelieu didn't have a finger in it; George the Thi

riter to summon these desirable but defunct individuals, they were probably left to pursue, in unmolested peace, their favorite and dignified occupations of "tipping" tables, knocking on partitions, drumming on floors, frightening old women and little girls into hysterics, and upsetting the propriety of whole parlors

this mighty work, instigated only by the Spirits hereinaf

rather elevated position for me to come up and take a "hasty plate" of glory; and I have not the heart to refuse the request of such a good-looking female, preferred in such elegant language. I am going to shin up the slippery rope leading to her aerial temple (for

and ever-present, and withal insinuating, and not wholly distasteful. It has been constant in my ear, suggesting pleasing hopes and fanciful desires; a

ersi-colored plumage, with her finger on her lip, quoted the perpetually murdered Shakspeare prophetically, and, no doubt, with an eye to the success of the volume aforesaid, and said, sui

y quill-I shall accept the pressing invitation of the Goddess of Fame; and in order most effectually to dis-tinguish or ex

e says, must have its course-it may end in a malignant biography-result in an infectious broadsword and blunderbuss, yellow covered novel, or degenerate int

s of the work. A mental cogitation ensued. Philander was puzzled to know what Doesticks was going to write about-Philander asked