THE PANCHRONICON BY HAROLD STEELE MACKAYE - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/27682/pg27682-images.html

 

He said he was born in the year 2582, an' had ben takin' what he called a historical trip into the past ages. He went on at a great rate like that, an' I thought he was jest wanderin' in his mind with the fever, so I humored him. But he saw through me, an' he wouldn't take no but I should go down into Burnham's swamp with him to see how he'd done it.