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After the tragedy a Bristolian Paganini performed a concerto on one string. Dall declares that the whole orchestra played the whole time but some sounds reached me in my dressing-room that were decidedly unique more ways than one, not at all unlike our favorite French fantasia "Complainte d'un cochon au lait qui rêve."
A modern remnant of the old Bristolian merchant-adventurers, it was established for slaving purposes during the last century by Mr. Henry King, maintained by his sons, Richard who hated men-of-war, and William who preferred science, and it is kept up by his grandsons for legitimate trade. Skippers and crews are well paid for the voyage, which lasts from a year to fifteen months.
"As yet my books are lying as ghost books, in a limbo on the banks of a certain Bristolian Styx, humanly speaking, a Canal; but the other apparatus of life is gathered about me, and performs its diurnal functions.
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