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LIFE OX THJB MISSISSIPPI.

Evidently this creature was suffering unimaginable terrors. Think
what it must have been to wake up in the midst of that voiceless
hush, and look out over that grim congregation of the dead ! What
gratitude shone in his skinny white face when he saw a living form
before him ! And how the fervency of this mute gratitude was aug-
mented when his eyes fell upon the life-giving cordials which I
carried in my hands ! Then imagine the horror which came into

THE MORGUE.

this pinched face when I put the cordials behind me, and said mock-
ingly—
* Speak up, Franz Adler—call upon these dead. Doubtless they
will listen and have pity ; but here there is none else that will/
He tried to speak, but that part of the shroud which bound his
jaws, held firm and would not let him. He tried to lift imploring
but they,were crossed upon his breast and tied. I said__