C. Ay, so I was; but it was worse yet, for they had not stood

long together, but the great elbow-chair, which the old gentleman sat in at the little table just by me, _began to stir of itself_; at which the old gentleman, knowing I should be afraid, came to me, and said, 'Sit still, don't you stir, all will be well; you shall have no harm;' at which he gave his chair a kick with his foot, and saith, 'Go!' with some other words, and other language; _and away went the obedient chair, sliding, two of its legs on the ground, and the other two off, as if somebody had dragged it by that part_.