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"Do I sleep, do I dream, / Do I wonder and doubt -- / Are things what they seem / Or is visions about? "
There has always been an inclination, or desire, rather, on my part to believe in the mystic -- even as far back as stretches the gum-elastic remembrance of my first "taffy-pullin" given in honor of my fifth birthday; and the ghost-stories, served by way of ghastly dessert, by our hired girl. In fancy I again live over all the scenes of that eventful night: --