A BEWITCHED BEDSTEAD.
Visitors to one of the old ca stles in England are shown two rooms which are connected with each other by a singular mechanism. Each room is joined by an alcove, used as a sleeping apartment, and the floors of the adjoining alcoves turn on a pivot in the centre of the partition Avail. This ingenious device was the invention of one of the ancestors of the present proprietor, who was somewhat of a wag, and found great pleasure in frightening and mystifying his guests. When one had gone to bed in the green room and the other in the blue the floors were turned on their pivots, and on awakening the visitor found himself in strange quarters, with clothes that were not his own. It is said that this fun - loving lord lost a rich inheritance by thus disturbing the restful moments of a wealthy aunt, -who never forgave the trick her nephew played upon her.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 35, 31 March 1894, Page 7
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160A BEWITCHED BEDSTEAD. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 35, 31 March 1894, Page 7
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