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witnesses, a negro belonging to the same estate, was asked--"Do you know the prisoner to be an obeah-man?"--"Ees, massa, shadow-catcher, true." "What do you mean by a shadow-catcher?"--"Him ha coffin, (a little coffin produced,) him set for catch dem shadow." "What shadow do you mean?"--"When him set obeah for summary, (some body,) him catch dem shadow and dem go dead;" and too surely they were soon dead, when he pretended to have caught their shadows, by whatever means it was effected. _Barclay's Slavery._ * * * * * THE FUNDS. John Kemble being present at the sale of the books of Isaac Reed, the commentator on Shakspeare, when "a Treatise on the Public Securities" was knocked down at the humble price of sixpence--the great tragedian observed, "that he had never known the funds so low before." * * * * * TEMPUS EDAX RERUM. "Time is money," Robin says, 'Tis true I'll prove it clear: Tom owes _ten pounds_, for which he pays in Limbo _half a year_. * * * * * ON JACK STRAW'S CASTLE, HAMPSTEAD HEATH, BEING REPAIRED. With best of food--of beer and wines, Here may you pass a merry day; So shall "mine host," while Phoebus shines, Instead of straw, make good his hay. J. R. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 283, 17 Nov 1827, by Various *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 283 *** ***** This file should be named 10896.txt or 10896.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/8/9/10896/ Produced by Jonathan Ingram, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Elaine Walker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a re
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