“My conscience! what a suit of clothes!

Some crazy fellow, I suppose.

Hallo! friend, what’s your name? By the powers of gin,

That’s a strange dress to travel in.”

“Be silent, Abel; for I now have come

To read your doom;

Then hearken, while your fate I now declare.

I am a spirit”—“I suppose you are;

But you’ll not hurt me, and I’ll tell you why:

Here is a fact which you cannot deny;—