The Picture In The House by H. P. Lovecraft

Author:H. P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-12T07:00:00+00:00

"As Isays , 'tis queer haow picters sets ye thinkin'. D'yeknow , young Sir, I'm rightsot on this un here. Arter I got the book off Eb I uster look at it a lot, especialwhen I'd heerd Passon Clark rant o' Sundays in his big wig. Onct I triedsuthin' funny - here, young Sir, don't git skeert - all I done was ter lookat the picter afore I kilt the sheep for market - killin' sheep was kinder morefun arter lookin' at it - " The tone of the old man now sank very low, sometimesbecoming so faint that his words were hardly audible. I listened to therain, and to the rattling of the bleared, small-paned windows, and marked a rumblingof approaching thunder quite unusual for the season. Once a terrific flashand peal shook the frail house to its foundations, but the whisperer seemednot to notice it.

"Killin' sheep was kinder more fun - but d'yeknow , 'twan't quite satisfyin'.

Queer haow a cravin' gits aholt on ye - As ye love the Almighty, young man, don'ttell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun to make me hungry fer victualsI couldn't raise nor buy - here, set still, what's ailin' ye? - I didn'tdo nothin', only I wondered haow 'twud be ef I did - They say meat makes bloodan' flesh, an' gives ye new life, so I wondered ef 'twudn't make a man livelonger an' longer ef 'twas more the same - " But the whisperer never continued. The interruption was not produced by my fright, nor by the rapidly increasingstorm amidst whose fury I was presently to open my eyes on a smoky solitudeof blackened ruins. It was produced by a very simple though somewhat unusualhappening.

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