[Jerome Cardan, the famous physician, tells the following anecdote in his De Rerum Varietate, lib. x., 93. Jerome only once heard a rapping himself, at the time of the death of a friend at a distance. He was in a terrible fright, and dared no... Read more of The Cold Hand at Scary Stories.caInformational Site Network Informational
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The Tanner; An Epigram

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A BERMONDSEY tanner would often engage,
In a long tete-a-tete with his dame,
While trotting to town in the Kennington stage,
About giving their villa a name.
A neighbor, thus hearing the skin-dresser talk,
Stole out, half an hour after dark,
Picked up in the roadway a fragment of chalk,
And wrote on the palings,--Hide Park!





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