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PHANTASMAGORIA.
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"(If that's a snuff-box on the shelf,"
He added with a yawn,
"I'll take a pinch)—next came an Elf,
And then a Phantom (that's myself),
And last, a Leprechaun.
"One day, some Spectres chanced to call,
Dressed in the usual white:
I stood and watched them in the hall,
And couldn't make them out at all,
They seemed so strange a sight:
"I wondered what on earth they were,
That looked all head and sack;
But mother told me not to stare,
And then she twitched me by the hair,
And punched me in the back.
