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A nation can pass through epochs of the black-death, and recover and improve its average health; but does a people ever completely rally from this blackest death of all? I. pp. 32, 34; No. II. pp. 23, 25, 47; No. III. p. 3. "And you, Quashee, my pumpkin, idle Quashee, I say you must get the Devil sent away from your elbow, my poor dark friend!"
Like a bat he slips into all dwellings; no gate and no bolt is an obstacle to him. Right up into the lofts he climbs and opens the most secret chamber. That threshold he passes is doomed to the Black-death. It had happened thus to a little town in Franconia, where but a few houses remained untouched by the terrible plague.
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