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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
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iving credit to stories of supernatural events, even from sources thatseem to be trustworthy, I hope my young friends will consider duly how liableto error are an unhealthy mind and an excited imagination. Every man is not aknave or a cheat who claims to have witnessed unnatural phenomena, but thejudgment of very excellent persons is liable to be infected by illusions of theimagination. I do not say that we may not receive impressions from the spiritual world.As the geologist, the botanist, the chemist, sees things in nature that the un-schooled and undeveloped do not see, so it may be that a spiritually educatedmind may know more of the spiritual world than the gross and selfish mind. Iwill not enlarge upon this topic or discuss this question ; it might not beproper for me so to do. 4 5o ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS. Master Lewis had aimed to make clear to the boys that it is easyto start a superstitious story, and to suggest that such stories in igno- rant times became legends.
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OLD FORTRESS ON THE RHINE. I propose, said Willie Clifton, that the first seven meetings ofthe Club be devoted to the Rhine. We might call this series of meetings Seven Nights on the Rhineadded Herman Reed. The old members of the Club who made the Rhine journey withMr. Beal might give us an account of that journey, suggested one ofthe new boys. A S TOR Y- TELLING JO URNE Y. 5 I The plans suggested by these remarks met with approval, and acommittee was appointed to arrange the literary exercises for sevenmeetings of the Club, to be known as Seven Nights on the Rhine. The literary exercises for the present evening consisted of the rela-tion of historic ghost stories, chiefly by members of the old Club.Among these were the Province House Stories of Hawthorne, thetradition of Mozarts Requiem, the Cock Lane Ghost, and severalincidents from Scotts novels. The principal story, however, was given by Tommy Toby, an oldmember of the Club, and a graduate of the Academy. TOMMY TOBYS STORY OF ST.

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