PROLOGUE.
OUT of about two hundred and thirty cases, more or less nearly akin to that I have entitled "Green Tea," I select the following, which I call "The Familiar."
To this MS. Doctor Hesselius, has, after his wont, attached some sheets of letter-paper, on which are written, in his hand nearly as compact as print, his own remarks upon the case. He says—
"In point of conscience, no more unexceptionable narrator, than the venerable Irish Clergyman who has given me this paper, on
