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US possess, while from this point we forget the errors that 

 ourselves and our companions may have committed, for- 

 ever." (Three times three, "and one more," were here 

 given for the speaker, his friends, and all the rest of man- 

 kind.) 



" I will say no more, gentlemen. My stomach is too full 

 for further convenient utterance ; and I will conclude with a 

 sentiment to which, I am sure, you will all respond. I will 

 give you — 



'" The Hen Fever !'" — 



"Don't, don't!" shrieked the crowd. "We've had 

 that disease once, and that'js quit? sufScient." 



" Indulge me, gentleme^j one Eioiii^eiit, and I will pro- 

 pose, then — 



" ' The Hen Trade : 'f^]^ * fowl calling, it puts 

 fair money in the pureuj^ ^m ^^judiciously " managed. 

 May none of you ever #a WWe, pecuniarily, in this 

 humble "profession," than feaa your friend — the sub- 

 scriber.' " 



Another round of tearty ch^,^rs succeeded this sentiment, 

 a parting bumpgjp w^S eaje^d, and the circle sepa- 

 rated, to meet again at Philippi, — or elsewhere, — 

 where the author hopes to encounter only friendly faces, 

 whatever may have been his business relations with 

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