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Credit: Spectral visitants, or, Journal of a fever / by a Convalescent. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![females, and all were ripe for a gale. They began by playing button with all its forfeitures and penal- ties exacted to the last farthing, and thus in various games they spent a long time talking and laughing merrily. I thought they were rather noisy for a sick room . and if they knew how sick I was, I felt sure they would not be so boisterous. J] thought, How they will feel if I should die! They will think of this evening with deep sorrow. I was about speak- ing to them, and telling them that their noise dis- turbed me very much; but then I reflected, these are not young men and women, they are nothing but spectres, and why should I let spectres trouble me again when I have detected them once. But this did not satisfy me. Something seemed to say, ''That cannot be — spectres never wear such young funny faces as those are. You are not spectres, are you ? By this time I remembered the effect of opening my eyes in dispelling such appearances, and as soon as my eyes were opened, all the com- pany fled. THIRD VISITORS. Thursday evening.—I am not quite sure whether the group I am now to describe, appeared before the watchers came or not. It was of so queer and nov- el a character, that I despair of giving you any thing like a just im.pression of it. First came a box nearly filled with water, and stationed itself direct- ly across my bed, about six or eight inches above my person and about midway from my face to the foot board. The box was about eighteen inches wide, and some fourteen or 15 inches deep, and four](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21146391_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
