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Tilly during this had experienced one moment’s excruciating pain, resembling the severest neuralgia as his head was ground beneath the wheel, but almost before he realised it, the pain was past, and he found himself, still rather dazed, floating or standing (he did not know which) in the middle of the road. Tilly’s remains, detached with great difficulty from the road (so firmly had they been pressed into it), were reverently carried away into the mortuary…. Then the ambulance from the hospital was sent for, and Mr.

Tilly that the only thing possible was to get the hysterical engine-driver to move clear. The policeman on duty at the corner turned quite faint at the sight of the catastrophe, but presently recovered sufficiently to hold up the traffic, and ran to see what on earth could be done.

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Then the driver (too late) reversed his engine and passed over him again, and finally lost his head, whistled loudly and stopped. The heavy wheels passed over him from head to foot and flattened him completely out.

The words were hardly out of his mouth, when the first half of his horrid anticipations was thoroughly fulfilled. Cumberbatch’s séance! Most provoking! A-ow!” “ Oh, dear! oh, dear!” he said petulantly, “it will certainly crush me quite flat, and I shan’t be able to be at Mrs. Tilly had only the briefest moment for reflection, when, as he slipped and fell on the greasy wood pavement at Hyde Park Corner, which he was crossing at a smart trot, he saw the huge traction-engine with its grooved ponderous wheels towering high above him. Is was originally collected in the volume The Room in the Tower and Other Stories (1912). James, others showcase his urbane wit such as the following tale which lampoons the spiritualist craze of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. While some are quiet gruesome, a negative for fellow ghost writer and theoretician M. and Robert Hugh, Edward enjoyed weaving excellent ghost stories. Benson remains the best known, especially for the humous novels of the Mapp and Lucia series, which have received several television adaptions. His older brother, Arthur Christopher recounts this fact in Where No Fear Was: “…no member of the party had ever heard of my existence, or was aware that I had ever published a book, and when I was questioned as to what I had written, no one had ever come across anything that I had printed, until at last I soared into some transient distinction by the discovery that my brother was the author of Dodo.” And today, E. Keeping the image intact can be accomplished by locating the crystal ball in such a way that your guests are most likely to stay directly in front of the globe.Of all the creative Benson siblings, Edward Frederic (1867-1940) was the most famous during their lifetime. Because the image is being reflected from below it is best viewed directly from the front, as deviation from head-on will tend to cut off the image. I used an iPad2 as my video device, but any video display that fills the opening in the bottom of the globe will do. I used ‘Vloop’ App, but there are several out there. The video is run in a looping program so that it continuously repeats so there is no need to access the video device to start or stop the content. You can also record your own video and personalize the content. However the one I am using, and like the best, is found on our own Instructable’s website from a previous Instructable. Many versions of Madame Leota can be found on YouTube.

I used video of her face for the image in the crystal ball. Madame Leota is the medium in Disney’s Haunted Mansion attraction that appears in the séance room’s crystal ball casting spells. That’s it! I hid my video source in a cardboard box suspended by black fine steel wires. The Madame Leota visual effect is simple take a acrylic globe add a video display under it and then place a sheet of clear plastic in the globe at a 45 degree angle to reflect the image forward. I had fun putting this display together and you probably will too. My version included Madame Leota in her crystal ball floating in the air above the séance table. Inspired by Madame Leota in Disney's Haunted Mansion attraction, I thought I would try to create a séance scene.

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