n assured them that the house was still under the
influence of the Devil, and would remain so unless they took off the
roof. Finally they did take off the roof, and then succeeded in moving
the house. Putnam was personally cognizant of this fact.

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_November 17_.--A story of the effects of revenge in diabolizing him who
indulges in it.

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The Committee of Vigilance, instituted to promote the discovery of old
Mr. White's murderers,--good as the machinery of a sketch or story.

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A story of the life, domestic and external, of a family of birds in a
marten-house, for children.

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The people believed that John Hancock's uncle had bought an immense
diamond at a low price, and sold it for its value,--he having grown rich
with a rapidity inexplicable to them. The fact was, however, according
to Hutchinson, that he made his fortune by smuggling tea in molasses
hogsheads from St. Eustatia.

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An old French Governor of Acadie, the predecessor of D'Aulnay, paid for
some merchandise, which he bought of the captain of an English vessel,
with six or seven hundred buttons of massive gold, taken from one of his
suits. (Mass. Hist. Coll.)

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An apparition haunts the front yard. I have often, while sitting in the
parlor, in the daytime, had a perception that somebody was passing the
windows; but, looking towards them, nobody is there. The appearance is
never observable when looking directly towards the window, but only by
such a sidelong or indirect glance as one gets while reading, or when
intent on something else. But I know not how many times I have raised my
head or turned with the certainty that somebody were passing. The other
day I found that my wife was equally aware of the spectacle, and that,
as likewise agrees with my own observation, it always appears to be
entering the yard from the street, never going out.

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The immortal flowers,--a child's story.

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"He looked as if he had been standing up thirty years against a
northeast storm." Description of an old mate of a vessel, by Pike.

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Death possesses a good deal of real estate, namely, the graveyards