One character in this story concocts a scheme to supply the East Indies with ice by assembling a teamof whales.
One character in this story concocts a scheme to supply the East Indies with ice by assembling a teamof whales. The setting of this story includes a bookshelf containing parchment-covered duodecimos, apicture of a woman who can step out of its frame, and a head of Hippocrates capable of intoning the word"Forbear!" In this story, three men fight over who gets to dance with a lady who had been their mutuallover. After a rose wilts for the second time, Mr. Gascoigne, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and theWidow Wycherly revert to old age. For 10 points, name this story in which a mad scientist serves an elixirof youth to four geriatrics, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
One character in this story concocts a scheme to supply the East Indies with ice by assembling a teamof whales.
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"