Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

That very singular man old Dr. Heidegger once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study. There were three white-bearded gentlemen - Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew and Mr. Gascoigne - and a withered gentlewoman whose name was the widow Wycherly. They were all melancholy old creatures who had been unfortunate in life, and whose greate