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Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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42 DANGER IN TIlE DARK.<br />

"It seems, <strong>the</strong>n, J'ou are disposed to place <strong>the</strong><br />

superstitious fabrications of ignorant and idle bra<strong>in</strong>!'!<br />

on a foot<strong>in</strong>g with <strong>the</strong> most au<strong>the</strong>ntic and grave<br />

declarations of history!"<br />

"I tell you, Squire, I believe such stuff about as<br />

much as I do <strong>the</strong> tale of Dr. Johnson's Cock-lane<br />

ghost, or <strong>the</strong> thousand and one stories of <strong>the</strong> Arabian<br />

Nights' enterta<strong>in</strong>ments! I'm not one of yO'llI'gullable<br />

sort, Squire-<strong>the</strong>y're welcome to impose on my<br />

credulity if <strong>the</strong>y can."<br />

"Are we not bound to accredit <strong>the</strong> united testimony<br />

of historians ~"<br />

"0 pshaw! I never read history."<br />

" Your statements <strong>the</strong>n, of course, will be good<br />

authority, as to events that happened before you were<br />

born."<br />

"None of your irony-I've read some th<strong>in</strong>gs, if I<br />

haven't o<strong>the</strong>rs-but always thought I could put <strong>in</strong> my<br />

time better, than <strong>in</strong> study<strong>in</strong>g history."<br />

"You put it <strong>in</strong>, perhaps, <strong>in</strong> perus<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> celebrated<br />

work you have just quoted ~ <strong>the</strong> thousand and one<br />

stories of <strong>the</strong> Arabian Nights' enterta<strong>in</strong>ments ~"<br />

"I must confess'that's a book I always liked to<br />

read,-but I never believed a word of."<br />

"Now you don't pretend to say, your credulity<br />

staggered so easily! Disbeliev<strong>in</strong>g those marvelous<br />

tales, you learned to disbelieve all history; well you<br />

are not so s<strong>in</strong>gular after all-<strong>the</strong>re are thousands of<br />

m<strong>in</strong>ds constructed thus. But aga<strong>in</strong> to <strong>the</strong> subject:<br />

If Catholics have been falsely accused of <strong>in</strong>tolerance,

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