Digging for Captain Kydd´s Treasure
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Excerpt from Digging for Captain Kydd´s Treasure: A Startling Narrative Oh thou immortal bard, did ever man utter suggestion more important? Well did´st thou know, oh! king of poets, that future generations would adhere to thy saying, and "put money in their purse. The king, the beggar, the infidel the Christian, all, all alike are struggling to "put money in their purses." Thy memory, oh! master of the quill, will be handed down as it has been, from generation to generation, for thy many utterances of advice, none of which are more universally observed than is this, "Put money in thy purse." All men are anxious to obtain money. And why should they not? Money is man´s God, his assertion to the contrary notwithstanding. Man will leave no means untried to fill his purse honestly, and many will "put money in their purse dishonestly - but of this no matter. I believe that men are as honest as they can be under the circumstances, and their organizations; therefore I will at once to my story. During the summer of 1855, at the request of a friend, I visited a spirit-medium for the purpose of witnessing some of the wonderful manifestations which he told me he had seen, and which he said he firmly believed were made by departed spirits. Accordingly one evening in the month of August, my friend and I started and soon reached the medium´s domicile on Canal street. We found several intelligent men, and some pretty women, seated around the table with the medium, who, as soon as he saw my friend, nodded knowingly, and invited us to take seals at the table, which we immediately did, my friend sitting beside the medium, and I between two fair damsels. Soon it came my turn to ask questions of the spirits, and I took a pencil and wrote: - "Are there any spirits who will communicate with me?" Rap, rap, rap, which being interpreted meant yes. I then wrote, "who are you?" The medium seized a penci1 and wrote with the rapidity of lightning. "I am captain Robert Kydd:" and he shoved the paper over to me. "Captain Kydd!" I exclaimed, "well captain, what have you to say? come let me learn, I am all attention ?" The medium then wrote, "You are an honest man." "Thank you, captain, that´s more than most mortals are: but, captain, how do you know that; are you acquainted with me?" The medium then wrote, "Yes, I have been seeking four honest men, and you now make up the number, and if you will consent to do as I shall direct, I will put you in a way to obtain a large amount of treasure; but, I must see you alone with the medium, I can say no more to night. Remember I want to see you in private with this medium." Just at this moment I cast my eyes around the room and saw hanging on the wall the following notice: - Terms. - For 15 minutes, 50cts.; for half an hour, $1,00; 1 hour, $2,00. "Oh! oh!" I mentally said, "here´s the key, see me alone with the medium, eh! well, we will consider about that." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserv
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