Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    142/312 (page 134)
    “ Take hold of his legs, Karl, and go first with the lantern,” said Zorastro, gripping the man under the shoulders. And so they carried him to the room at the end of the passage, and laid him on the low, wooden bed. Then taking the stout cord that Petro had used as a girdle, they securely tied his arms and legs to each of the bed-posts, and fastening the door from the outside, they left him snoring. Then our travellers sought their beds, and were soon both lost in the land of dreams.