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Why, your hull country is chuckfull of pizenous remedies. When I was a-coasting along Yankeedom and went ashore, I found all the rocks along the road were jist kivered with quack-medicine notices, and all the farmers hired out the outsides of their barns to advertise doctor's stuff on." In no portion of America do the people seem to feel the burden of earning a livelihood more lightly.
The befrogged officer is no longer limited in the arabesques of braid and tinsel that make gay his manly breast. He commands all the resources of Snip's imagination, and whirligigs beyond what hath entered the mind of man to conceive will shortly meander over the cerulean expanse. Is there not a lull in the quack-medicine business?
He paid pretty regularly, but in a depreciated currency. The verses have not the golden ring of the "Contes" and the "Fables." "Le Roi, l'État, la Patrie, Partagent toute votre vie." That is a sample of their value. Quack-medicine poets often do as well. He wrote "Adonis" for Fouquet, and had worked three years at the "Songe de Vaux," when the ruin of his patron caused him to lay it aside.
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