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Full Title	Chicago Ledger, v. XXXIII, no. 28, Saturday, July 15, 1905.
Contributor	Upward, Allen, 1863-1926.
Date Added	19 June 2018
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1905-07-15
Publisher	Chicago, Ill. : W. D. Boyce Company
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	The Yogi's spell; or, The Man who lived backward / by Allen Upward. Man who lived backward
Topic	Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens.
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Disclaimers	Disclaimer of Liability Disclaimer of Endorsement

OCR PMCE Q? PLEASUREf ,..r-in -4,,‘ -..,,.. ,. ilw. l 2’ i:-‘.4 . "O41’Af5 ,,.‘.. i'Js;3 L .t‘:.-Ll ‘S. 5.1,. r CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1905. I do not know What to think of this story which was told to me by A friend. not give it in his own words. because he ,did not tell it connectedly. but hit hy bit- V in t‘z1('L I had almost to ' After first going past sir . been drag it out 0! ‘him- tind he was frightened at the time. ’He (‘time into my room late at night-we live on the same staircase in the T8IYlDest- my ,door on his Wily’ cluttering down the l stone om e was quite Dale, and trembling all over, and his first word: . on, or something. I know you don't believe in these t IDES." "“’hnt !hlnEi?" I aai . "VVell"Ai'le seemed to have ti rlifficulty In finding the right word-“psychical things, perhaps I ought 0 say. actiy; not anything to do with spirit; or that sort of I)0nsel'l!(%y0I.I know w a .e:ili. "Hypnotlsm. nerhaps7’’ '‘ o. A least, 1 dim’ think 60. the trouble. That's what upset me n some uowertul new kind a T" broke oi‘! and seemed to wince until‘? his own thoughts. "I: it lIn)'tl'lil‘lg private?" I asked. "Frill - happened? Never mird not." "I hardly dzlre -well, either yarn, or else as though hziil made I1 00 of." y . "VVt‘ll," I said. brcoming impatient, “eithrr i tell it to me or leave it alone. It’: irllatim; can- . to listen to mysterious hints that you don’! exnlzllrl.“ 2 seemed to see the torce oi’ this, find I could see that he was trying to think 0 home way ot beginning the story. At lust Ii broke out me it so 2 ow, but only Itvr I40 m n false starts and so many Interruption: and doubling: that it was all 1 o to rollow him distinctly eep him to the point. "1 must. tell you hrst," he said, "though it has nothing really to do with t t . now What that means. believe hers who would rather Ell‘ children than to see them we ltlFSEd each other as us I Whe she e in I have ‘got to tell you that-hut a soon as We got onto the subject of her I and she w away declaring she would have noth- int? more to with me. “I was trlghttully cut up, of course. Ileiwve that ii’ she hadrput her head back through the door and asked ‘ Endless lot of scenes DI’ the same in kind right through our married lire. But, anyhow. n a sort 0! miserable stat? when a man doesn't care what t0 him. "I went and dined two Indians in our in one of them in Hail. V a hail uho goes about in The Ytllzl they Dali him: C n’ remember his; no r 0 e . lnterrnlna luring‘: ot H 0 rnbberish. Neither he nor the other man, who was a Fiohammediln, t k mly wine,-so the captain and I hlld ii doublv ‘hart "I don't care to talk to strangers as II me I Ehoud There were ‘ or, The Man Who By ALLEh rult‘. Dut l was in that excited state that l Ittlnwthlng zlbo t the l EttI'n(‘t(‘d can hardly explain how I asked hiln got 0 he sun. v jourl he ‘had 3. set right at the ton of a house in that row overlooking Gray‘: Inn - Verularn Buildings. ' ‘called. The rooms were v the oor, and a sort. or divan the wall ct r it There was ir. which he sale mo, and .-i little table, and he made me 2. cup of colree, and feartully strong, something like the Turkish coffee you get at the -rrnrndero. "He did not take any liiniueit, but he sat down on the ivan an we went on talk- lmr. I told him about Kant, and the ideas o I u 1 r s‘. 8 u 1 o v. m : ance to undo m and get back to the point r = to she ad fixeii, u d 5 who never late. said I should like to live back through six hours and la uur or: “The Yogi handed me A small brass ring ms in Yogi, saying in dill so-Le-W’ yrev. "As the words left my mouth I realized h t I was livin backward, and t at t 0 last thing 1 had said in taking the ring was don't. you. that were Spoken! cribe to you the dmy pocket, and stretthed out'my hniid to the empty Carlee cup. I lifted it mouth red to r9'elve it "The taste was exactly E! if I had been Lived Backward, UPWARD. drinking. and. of course. there was no rt-< s. ‘ll e on the pals: at the muscles at the throat, but the Whole sensation was elltlrcly ovel. I can 0 ' that 1 telt as though I inside out, will e experiencing ull the pious. ur9 of the original drau t. . “A3 500)] as the Cup was renlled I set it down Again. and the moisture on my lllJE disiippcrired, M :4 table. It was like watching the moverricnti ’ I) he in doing-:13 . As a hacked out oi’ the room ml the coffee. I hit myself jerked, as it u-er out at m . rniilr, and walking backward without try- ing to see where I was . .> ‘A d. rnyselt thinking 2 telpiece, headed noitncudE lager. to licnuuc, iin w it announced 3 lorthcomlng exam- innllon in oman my. "I looking around the rcsurning m rst room, into the next X00711 and n12kB After that we both through the door. W went straight to where -I had ion my hat tin 3 (‘ in the little corridor. Whli-3 me 3 cut: 0! backed out the Yogi [7 k e of ooden mLlt(h 01! (I tray, blew it alight, litted ii to the gas-jet, and t arne lie lh ' h nix alltly esitated. while my host told me to put them where I liked. "At we got ou e, and my coin. pnnion closed the door and locked it, and LINK? m to wot . H , “‘Ve 'ent do e stairs backward, pausing to get breath on the landings. On ' vie passe ri sir g who who running lightly up. Ali we a cried t>Il('h play passed, and hen xx 2 g who he mi and thinlm-ig his race “as tomiliar to e n his g‘? as he ran back trorn me up the stairs was a most (‘urluus sight. and yet it did not afiett nio as linpossible. ’ my way down‘ the stairs I renerted he Benciiers did not admi men a students with ‘ "As we reach round door and passed out onto the pavement the Yogi told me - was where he lived, and wondered it it was rash on my pzlrt to ven- lure into his den. crews‘ hen and proceed to entangle them deliberately. as it looked. Then they began n swear nn rumble at each other. and men they rapidly drew apart "I noticed one man take an evening paper out nt his pocket, mutter an , ginn o Illlr-Err All along Holborn there we buy: shrieking ‘Z‘l-ni-W eht ll‘-8W!‘ I l-nigh coon as we got into nolborn I had the ‘