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slough of

slough of despair, so terrible in all its aspects, and so disgraceful to a great and prosperous city. He thanks him who blessed him with the light of learningwho endowed him with vigor and resolutionand told him to go forth in armor, beating down satan, and raising up the heathen world. A mustering of spectacles follows. Sister slocum draws from her bosom a copy of the report the wise man in the spectacles rises to read. A fashionable gold chain and goldframed eyeglass is called to her aid and with a massive pencil of gold, she dots and points certain items of dollars and cents her keen eye rests upon every now and then. The wise man in the spectacles rises, having exchanged glances with sister slocum, and commences reading a very long, and in nowise lean