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being the author of man-traps baited with whisky and 

 fun, operating as a vulgar builder on the common prin- 

 ciples of money speculations, of taverns, hotels, or summer 

 resorts for brandy-suckers and hunters of good times, or 

 bear-pens for the regular worship of the devil. 



And, further, that the space is infinitely extended between 

 the physician, or healing man, set apart by the sacredness 

 of his calling from the ordinary motives and pursuits of 

 men, with his prayers for the suffering, and his aspirations 

 to cure the sick and infirm, to save men from disease and 

 death and give them comfort and health, and the profane 

 stuffer of the human intestine with vulgar viands barba- 

 rously tortured, and poisonous liquors villanously com- 

 pounded, the whole system promulgated on the common 

 tricks of the trade of the most profitable and economical 

 feeding and swelling of swine for money alone ; and espe- 

 cially must it be entirely obvious, even to a " wayfaring 

 man, though a fool," that said physician, or projector of 

 Hospitals or Healing Institutions as part of the special 

 strategy of the regular profession of medicine in its efforts 

 to surround the Author of evil and his "regiments of 

 the line/' must be immeasurably removed from the shadow 

 of suspicion of being implicated, or in any way compro- 

 mised, as a stool-pigeon, or decoy-duck, for the seduction 

 or inveiglement of friends particularly, and the world in 

 general, into said whisky-traps or pigeon-nets, to be plucked 

 by the vandal man-feeders of the same. 



Episode unpardonable No. 2. Have you ever approached, 

 with burning throat and parched lips, a clear, cool, mountain- 

 spring to take a drink, when bolt ! a bull-frog pitches into 

 the spring, and kicks, squirms, and flounders round until 

 the clear spring is a mud-puddle, and in your agonies you 

 see nothing but muddy water to mock your thirst ? You 

 ask, What is he after? why muddy the whole spring? Hia 

 frogship is simply endeavoring to CONCEAL by the mud he 

 stirs up his ugly form, and spoil the spring for your use, 

 supposing, no doubt, that the spring belongs to him. The 



