There can be little doubt that bravery such as few men possess is the quality of certain learned men who have spent the last two days trying to discover the private life of a poltergeist. The poltergeist is a fearful creature from the spirit world that delights in invading the realm of the finite and taking possession of luckless mortals, causing them to do all sorts of uncanny things. An eight-year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor so desired. Whereupon several fearless scientists isolated the boy in a glass cage to learn the secrets of this dread phantom. The poltergeist was evidently deeply impressed with such audacity and has since shown no signs of his presence.

But mortals should not take advantage of the magnanimity of such a creature. Can they doubt that with powers such as it possesses it could blast them from the face of the earth? Witches could be burned, but a poltergeist that can change his habitation from person to person at will is best left alone.