Anecdote Part 2

Ten lines of Brachygraphy shorthand characters written in pencil fill half of a notebook page. Underneath the tenth line is a long horizontal line, indicating the end of the exercise. Underneath this are a few scattered shorthand characters, some repeated. In the top right corner is the number eight, indicating the page number.

Dublin Core

Title

Anecdote Part 2

Subject

deciphered shorthand
ghost story
Arthur P. Stone
Charles Dickens

Description

The second and final part of a ghost story written in shorthand about a student prank gone wrong, featuring a ghost in green

Creator

Stone, Arthur P.
Dickens, Charles

Source

Free Library of Philadelphia

Date

1859-1860

Rights

Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Please seek further permission from the Free Library to reuse this image.

Format

image/tif

Language

Brachygraphy shorthand

Identifier

cdc5890009_10

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Text

Working transcription: concealed in the place in question. After appearing and being supposed by the afflicted student to be the ghost, he would then reveal himself and so work his cure. Under this guise, on a certain night, the student was hidden in the ghost’s place with instructions to come forth when the city clocks struck 12. As the hour approached, he saw from his concealment that the sleeping student became frightfully agitated. When it struck and the other emerged, he raised himself in/on his bed with a distorted face, marked/wracked with every possible expression of horror, cried out in agony "My God, there are two", fell back and died.

Citation

Stone, Arthur P. and Dickens, Charles, “Anecdote Part 2,” The Dickens Code, accessed July 14, 2025, https://dickenscode.omeka.net/items/show/4.

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