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52 A CARGO OF FIGS.
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XL—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Speeches Redpath , Lectures 221Washingto...
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creatures magnified , on their walls dimensions and ceiling and , till I im my half ined myself slumbering engaged senses in
-, ag overpowering a mortal strugg me le , I with thoug the ht , when snake- madl like y monsters seizing slowl one . They of them were I
how bulating awoke many . over A harmless had my died face but ! by In disgustin my the hands morning g m durin aggot I was g the was astonished ni unconsciousl ght , y and peram to how find
ly many ejected we ing could on more not them wler had hel . p from been Our laug the drama hing " done inside - when had to of , death one however his of collar " our by , its companions exclaimed my comic side ct , as They , for he y
with get into an a air my cra half brushes puzzled , into , half my serious whiskers three — " , mortal in I don to , my 't days know neck and , , whether till ni " hts
—I " the am a worm man s or they a maggot crep abandoned t . " in , For and the the infested worm cabin s they of crep the t out good g /
the then ship Lazaretto , " with Pottinger joy , to we , " perform and soug quarantine ht refuge , in at the Malta clean . s airy rooms of
From every , fig there issues one maggot ! For the most part the creatures make of their exit during ainfull the voyage ibl ; to but the , I fact am
that told , som the e families do not eman grocers cipate are themselves py frpm sens cap e tivity for a monthor moreafter their arrival in England . How long they
live after , whether quitting , they their , increas birthp e lace in , size I did , or not what learn becomes —all I know of _friends the is m ,
thatfor the future I shall never make , and I caution my , of fi
to avoid a voyage with " a cargo gs . "
52 A Cargo Of Figs.
52 A CARGO OF FIGS .
Xl—Notices Of Books.
XL—NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Speeches Redpath , Lectures 221washingto...
Speeches Redpath , Lectures 221 Washington _, and Letters Street . . By 1863 Wendell . Phillips , Boston . James .
, , the By two face ' addresses of a formidable in this volume mobfrom , delivered which in Mr Boston . Philli , ps and was in
secession rescued and his onl companions ordinances y by the utmost b were the , power immediatel Southern , of the y States police after , the but we passage see before that the he of
attack by South Carolin y a upon Fort Sumter _, in , favour of allow-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/52/
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