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1Author:  Hall Baynard Rush 1798-1863Requires cookie*
 Title:  Something for every body  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: Dear Charles,—You insist that I am an incorrigible skeptic, and seem inclined to deliver me over to the secular arm. “What!” say you, “shall we disbelieve the evidence of the senses, and the testimony of reputable citizens?” “What,” you triumphantly ask, “can be more satisfactory than experiments, such as the citizens of Somewhersburg have lately witnessed?—men, and even young women (!) rendered incapable of speaking! and a very mercurial dancing master arrested at the mere will of the mesmerist, and made to stand as if petrified, in the act of cutting a pigeon-wing!”
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