An old man, nearly octogenarian, who has been in bed for
twenty-seven years, being a harmless monomaniac, having the
delusion that his Satanic majesty always stood at his door
to prevent him from going out, suddenly one morning, early in
June, took it into his head that the devil was gone, whereupon
he got out of bed, and, with nothing on but his shirt walked
down to the quay (nearly a quarter of a mile) and jumped over.
Having been a good swimmer in his early days, he struck out, and
altho a boat put off from a vessel, he swam ashore.--_Public
Opinion._
(763)
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