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characters. The composition, indeed, can be highly re- 

 commended to school boards and school inspectors or 

 examiners as a specimen of English wherewith to test 

 the parsing capacities of their young victims as thoroughly 

 as those of the less humble young scholars at the public 

 schools are tested with choice examples of the Greek or 

 Latin language, as ' she ' was sometimes ' wrote ' by poets 

 and historians who ought to have known better. 



