Glimpses Of The Next State.Pdf - Spiritualists' National Union

233S.: Yes, he did.Mr. B.: He can talk Indian just as well.S.: I don’t want him to talk Indian, because I don’t understand it.Mr. B.: He can talk Irish, too.S.: I don’t know but what I might understand that; I have had some experience in that line.Mr. B.: When he talks Irish, he talks good, sound sense; he will tell you some things youdon’t know about.S.: Well, I know most everything.Tom: Come right here, then; I would like to see a man that knows most everything!S.: Thunder and damnation!Tom: Turn around, and let me see if you have got a hump on your back! So muchknowledge ought to make you one-sided.S.: Oh, mercy! He’s a ripper, isn’t he?Tom: Come here, John!S.: Hold on; I want to see what this young lady is doing here! What are you doing, Miss?Mrs. E.: I am trying to take down what that man says. It is pretty hard work sometimes—don’t you think so?S.: Can you get in the r—r—r—rip? Go ahead! Let her fly !—let her fly!Mr. B.: This Irishman seems to know you. You must be an old acquaintance.S.: I never knew him in my life!Mr. B.: How did he know your name?S.: Oh, he guessed it!Mr. B.: He can guess your other name right, too. He can guess your father’s name, and yourmother’s, and your sister’s.S.: Say, do you know my father? Say, you Irish b ,you!Mrs. B.: He’s a gentleman, if he is an Irishman!S.: Say, Pat, he has subsided!Mrs. B.: You talk to him nice, and then he will answer you.S.: Say, you gentleman, do you know my father? Do you know my mother?Tom: Why, yes; I have seen them.S.: When did you see them?Tom: I saw them here.S.: No, you didn’t!Tom: See here, don’t you contradict me!S.: Yes, I will! You never saw my mother and father here!Tom: You don’t know!S.: Yes, I do! You don’t think I am a d fool, do you?Tom: No; but I think you are very foolish.S.: Oh, pshaw !—oh, pshaw!Tom: I’ll tell you what I think you are! You are a d fool in your own conceit!S.: In my own conceit?Tom: Yes, because you think you are so smart, and know so much; and when you come rightdown to it you don’t know “A” yet!S.: I didn’t say I knew everything, but I have seen a good deal. I see that you want to have arow with me.Tom: No, I don’t!S.: You are trying to get up a row—that’s the Irish of it! Oh, G d them! I hate them!Tom: I would like to know what you are. If I was guilty of going down to Sue’s and raising arow down there, as you did, I wouldn’t say much about rows.S.: I only had a little fun, that’s all.Tom: Yes, you had fun enough at Mag’s expense. You treated her dirty mean; and if I hadbeen there I would have wrung your neck!S.: You couldn’t do it!Tom: I would like to know if I couldn’t do it!