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Show One of Poe's Experiences Too, ono night during thoso last wcoks ho spent In Richmond, rotated this torsonnl experience, adding that ho would carry It with blm to tho gravo ' I was living In Philadelphia during tho eplilonlc of tho cholera there Alt dn I would pico tho streets, seeing see-ing tho dying and dead until my beart was faint and sick within mo Late ' ouo ot enlng, on coming homo after ono ot theso aimless wanderings, broken down, and with n thousand pictures ot suffering and doat'i dancing hid oously before ray eyes I lay upon the bod In n moment I was asleep and dicamed that a block bird like a rat en came Into the room and perched over tho door 1 asked what It was Tho bird replied! -I am the spirit of the cholera and you are tho cause of mol' ' I woko with ft start but tho appall tlon wsa so real thai It mado an Im presslon on mo I shall nover forget " Tha Lamp |