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`` Oh , there 's never any telling . These foreigners with that kind of names are so delicate , and of course that kind of names are not suited to our climate -- you would n't expect it . '' -LSB- And so-on and so-on , no end . The time drags along ; Thursday comes : the boat arrives in a pouring storm toward midnight . -RSB- At last there was a knock at the door and the anxious family jumped to open it . Two negro men entered , each carrying a trunk , and proceeded upstairs toward the guest-room . Then followed a stupefying apparition -- a double-headed human creature with four arms , one body , and a single pair of legs !