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In the first of these Mamertius is driven forth from the city and consigned to the keeping of hostile persons; in the second, young men ran about the streets beating the women with strips of goatskin, the skin being that of a sacred animal a proceeding that was regarded as purificatory, and seems to be naturally explicable as an expulsion of evil spirits or injurious mana.
But had I come upon a nursery of hallelujah lasses? Were the nights to be made hideous with Salvation Army howls? On all sides of me were great girls and little girls, matrons and maids, in Salvation Army straws. I turned sick and faint with dismay. In the city of S. Mamertius, of S. Avitus and of Ado "General" Booth's great Religious Speculation!