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- # THE APPLE-TREE TABLE
## Overview
"THE APPLE-TREE TABLE" is a segment of text extracted from the document [The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches](arke:01KG6YFXZ62W4FVZVEZTBSQNZY). This segment, spanning lines 90 to 456 of its source file, is a short story or sketch.
## Context
This segment is part of [The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches](arke:01KG6YFXZ62W4FVZVEZTBSQNZY), which is itself part of the [Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF) collection, comprising the complete works of Herman Melville. The text was extracted from the file [the_apple_tree_table_and_other_sketches.txt](arke:01KG6YDD8GKW0DRD5H2MY1NRZ7). It follows the [frontmatter](arke:01KG6YGAW2T6JHBX5MPBFD5WSS) of the collection and precedes the segment titled [HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES](arke:01KG6YGAW3VAH41S6VYDAHK2RR).
## Contents
The segment contains the narrative of "THE APPLE-TREE TABLE," which details the discovery of an old, "satanic-looking" apple-tree table in a haunted garret. The narrator brings the table downstairs, despite his daughter Julia's superstitious fears after a startling encounter with it. The story describes the narrator's increasing nervousness while reading Cotton Mather's *Magnalia* at the table one Saturday night, leading to a mysterious ticking sound. His wife dismisses his fears as a result of his punch-drinking habit, but the ticking persists into the next morning, alarming both the narrator and his daughters, and prompting his wife to investigate the source of the sound. The segment is divided into seven chunks, detailing the discovery of the table, the narrator's attempts to domesticate it, the growing unease, and the mysterious ticking.
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- THE APPLE-TREE TABLE
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