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Excerpt from The Horroboos
It was the last night of the century and a number of us had gathered to witness the closing heart-beat of a hundred years. To while away the time until the ancient patient's demise we began to tell stories, drawing on our imaginations so vigorously that in some cases it seemed that the faculty might never be quite elastic again. There was among us one who did not yield himself to our sprightly vein, who indeed, if we were to speak from his reveried air, hardly felt the bracing sallies of mirth which gathered into spirited gales in their passage from mind to mind. At length we bantered him on his taciturnity, voting that he too must lay a story upon the altar of laughter. Greyson! Greyson! Cried several, whereupon we all shufiied our chairs making him the center.
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