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I had witnessed those monstrous sacrileges, and survived, had even, when locomotive and steamer were passed, picked up my beautiful fictions again, and called back my panic-stricken elephants with the gong of imagination; but here were Gulliver and Aladdin and Sinbad the Sailor torn from their golden thrones, and this insolent De Sauty, crowned with zinc and copper and sceptred with gutta-percha, set up in their places to the tune of "All Eight."
Consumers may, consequently, be glad to take the present article, which, by the aid of a Latin tutor and a Professor of Chemistry, will be found intelligible to the educated classes. Professor. Blue-Nose. Tell me, O Provincial! speak, Ceruleo-Nasal! Lives there one De Sauty extant now among you, Whispering Boanerges, son of silent thunder, Holding talk with nations?
Is there a De Sauty, ambulant on Tellus, Bifid-cleft like mortals, dormient in night-cap, Having sight, smell, hearing, food-receiving feature Three times daily patent? Breathes there such a being, O Ceruleo-Nasal? Or is he a mythus, ancient word for "humbug," Such as Livy told about the wolf that wet-nursed Romulus and Remus? Was he born of woman, this alleged De Sauty?
It was about the period when, with the fast world of cities, De Sauty was beginning to become type of an "ism"; already the attention of excitement-hunters had travelled far from Trinity Bay, and Cyrus Field had yielded his harvest.
And thenceforward they never would suffer men to dwell among them, especially men of the De Sauty sort, who, as Hans Christian Andersen says, ask questions and never dream. The town of Lop, says Marco Polo, is situated near the commencement of the great desert called the Desert of Lop.
The rest of the story of the telegraphic longitude is short. The first news which de Sauty had to give me was that the cable was broken, just where, he did not know, and would not be able soon to discover. After the break was located, an unknown period would be required to raise the cable, find the place, and repair the breach.
Nothing but a cloud of elements organic, C. O. H. N. Ferrum, Chor. Flu. Sil. Potassa, Calc. Sod. Phosph. Mag. Born of stream galvanic, with it he had perished! There is no De Sauty now there is no current! Give us a new cable, then again we'll hear him Cry, "All right! Back again! A turtle which means a tortoise is fond of his shell; but if you put a live coal on his back, he crawls out of it.
On that memorable night of the Cable Celebration, when so many paper lanterns and so many enlightened New Yorkers were sold in the name of De Sauty, when all the streets and all the people were alive with gas, when we fired off rockets and Roman candles and spread-eagle speeches in illustrious exuberance, when the city children lit their little dips, and the City Fathers lit their City Hall, when we hung out our banners, and clanged our bells, and banged our guns, when there was Glory to God in the highest steeple, and Peace on Earth in the lowest cellar, I drifted down the Broadway current of a mighty flood of folk, a morose and miserable sentimentalist.
Is there a De Sauty ambulant on Tellus, Bifid-cleft like mortals, dormient in nightcap, Having sight, smell, hearing, food-receiving feature Three times daily patent? Breathes there such a being, O Ceruleo-Nasal? Or is he a mythus, ancient word for "humbug," Such as Livy told about the wolf that wetnursed Romulus and Remus? Was he born of woman, this alleged De Sauty?
His name was published in the daily journals with several different varieties of spelling, and for this reason, and in consequence of his extreme reticence, one of them perpetrated the following: "Thou operator, silent, glum, Why wilt them act so naughty? Do tell us what your name is, come: De Santy, or De Sauty?
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