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PHANTASMAGORIA.
"The Fourth prohibits trespassing
Where other ghosts are quartered:
And those convicted of the thing
(Unless when pardoned by the king)
Must instantly be slaughtered."
I said "That rule appears to me
Wanting in common sense—"
"'To slaughter' does not mean," said he,
"'To kill' with us, and that, you see,
Makes a great difference.
"In fact we're simply cut up small,
(Ghosts soon unite anew;)
The process scarcely hurts at all,
Not more than when you're what you call
'Cut up' by a Review.
