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solicitude for

solicitude for his horse during the passage, that the officers and men were quite as much diverted with the proofs of affection displayed by the faithful animal, as they were at the eccentricities of his master. When then the general had paced the deck a sufficient length of time, he repaired to the cabin of his secretary, saying friend tickler, my learned secretary, get speedily up, for this is to be the most important day of my life, outshining, by far, the day of my reception in new york. Get up, write me a speech that shall become this remarkable event, and so mix it up with latin sentences, that these savages will take me for a profound scholar, and pay me courtesy accordingly for i have a fear of their knives, which, i am