On 16th November, 1870, Mr. Shchapoff, a Russian squire, the narrator, came home from a visit to a country town, Iletski, and found his family in some disarray. There lived with him his mother and his wife's mother, ladies of about sixty-nine,... Read more of The Dancing Devil at Scary Stories.caInformational Site Network Informational
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DURING the representation of Macbeth, an eminent special pleader
graced the boxes of Drury Lane Theatre, to see it performed. When the
hero questions the Witches, as to what they are doing: they answer, a
deed without a name. Our counsellor, whose attention was at that moment
directed more to Coke upon Littleton than to Shakespeare, catching,
however, the words in the play, repeated, A deed without a name!
why, 't is void.





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