Note to players: Description acceptable. In this essay, a “gray shade” is imagined lamenting the narrator's dissoluteness with lines like “the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!” Its narrator asserts that the words “I'll try, Sir!” would be “the best and fittest of all mottoes” for General Miller, after earlier praising the ability to “recollect good dinners” exhibited by a man who otherwise had “no soul, no heart, no mind, nothing [...] but instincts.” This essay describes how moonlight helps turn a room into (15[1])a “neutral territory” where the (*) “Actual and the Imaginary may meet.” This essay's narrator finds a package of manuscripts (10[1])by Jonathan Pue that also contains a cloth (10[1])that burns his breast. The narrator describes working in the port of Salem in, for 10 points, what essay that leads into Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel about Hester Prynne? ■END■