The Cruise of the Midge #265070

Confound these old-fashioned snuffers, the spring is broken I My eyes opened at this, wider, I believe, than they had ever done before, and my ears tingled. What a speech from an inhabitant of the other world I thought I. Oh is it you, Joe Peak quoth the handsome spectre; why do you steal in and startle one so, you little villain Hush — off with these heavy shoes of yours, and come and sit down, will ye?