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his posterior - Again I saw him lift a man weighing over two hundred pounds up as we would a newspaper and lower him head first to the floor - all the time swinging his head and shoulders forward and back until with a whack he is thumped on his back.  We afterwards went to Heaven and Hell. In heaven we were ushered into a large place full of monks. The building represented a monastery hall of the 16th century. The monks were chanting and everything was really like a dream. We were seated around a long table and after perhaps ten others had come in we sightseers were ushered up winding stairs to Paradise - Where ladies with little on their minds were twirling around flying thru' the air. A marvelous deception I supposed arranged by mirrors
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because when the manager asked for some gentleman to go up behind the[[strikethrough]] seen [[/strikethrough]] curtain Murray an Englishman went. And presently he was gracefully floating about turning upside down and smiling. He told us afterwards that he simply stood still and waved his hands. 

Hell was full of the damned. Devils tended to us the ceiling and walls were simply covered with frightful images. Murray went again behind scene and was burned to a crisp, poked thro' and thro' by devils prongs, and the show was not as good as [[strikethrough]] Heaven [[/strikethrough]] Paradise - 

Fifteen of the boys of the Quarter went to a dinner at a Hotel. Many got drunk broke all the glass in the place, and made beasts of themselves. 

I went Saturday afternoon again to the wrestling and saw the champion throw [[strikethrough]] meen [[/strikethrough]] six men
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