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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons + +Author: James Fairfax McLaughlin + +Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21274] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN CYCLOPS *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, David T. Jones and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from scans of public domain works at the +University of Michigan's Making of America collection.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="pic1" id="pic1"></a> +<img src="images/image001.png" class="border" width="400" height="582" alt="A pot-house soldier" title=""/> + +<p class="caption"><span class="right">Picture 1.</span>"A pot-house soldier, he parades by day,<br /> +And drunk by night, he sighs the foe to slay."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#pothouse"><i>Page</i> 19</a>.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%; margin-top: 150px;" /> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_two" id="Page_two"> +[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<h3>THE</h3> + +<h1>AMERICAN CYCLOPS,</h1> + +<h3 style="margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: -20px;">THE</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width:600px;"> +<img src="images/image017j.png" width="600" height="44" alt="hero of new orleans " title="" /> +</div> + +<h5 style="margin-top: 50px;">AND</h5> + +<h2>SPOILER OF SILVER SPOONS.</h2> + + +<h5 style="margin-top: 50px;">Dubbed LL.D.</h5> + +<h5>by</h5> + +<h3>PASQUINO.</h3> + +<h3>BALTIMORE: KELLY & PIET.</h3> + +<h5>1868.</h5> + + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<h5 style="margin-bottom: 0px;">Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by</h5> + +<h4 style="margin-top: 0px;">KELLY & PIET,</h4> + +<h5>In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the<br /> +District of Maryland.</h5> + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_three" id="Page_three"> +[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width:358px;"> +<img width="358" height="89" src="images/image015j.png" alt="introductory" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width:130px;"> +<img width="130" height="31" src="images/image013.png" alt="glyph" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><img src="images/image014.png" width="69" height="78" alt="T" class="firstletter" /> +HE following little illustrated effusion is offered to the public, in +the hope that it may not prove altogether uninteresting, or entirely +inappropriate to the times. The famous pre-historic story of Ulysses +and Polyphemus has received its counterpart in the case of two +well-known personages of our own age and country. Ulysses of old +contrived, with a burning stake, to put out the glaring eye of +Polyphemus, the man-eating Cyclops, and thereby to abridge his power +for cannibal indulgence; while our modern Ulysses, perhaps, mindful of +his classical prototype, is content to leave the new Polyphemus safely +"bottled-up" under the hermetical seal of the saucy Rebel Beauregard. +Although the second Cyclops is yet +<span class="left"><a name="Page_four" id="Page_four">[Pg 4]</a></span> +alive, and still possesses the visual organ in a squinting degree, a regard + for impartial history compels us to add, that the sword which leapt +from its scabbard in front of Fort Fisher, has fallen from the grasp of +the "bottled" chieftain, whether from an invincible repugnance to +warlike deeds, like that which pervaded the valiant soul of the renowned +Falstaff, or because an axe on the public grindstone is a more congenial +weapon in the itching palm of a Knight of Spoons, has not yet been +determined with absolute precision.</p> + +<p>The warrior Ulysses, like his namesake of Ithaca, however widely +opinion may militate upon his other qualifications, certainly deserves +the everlasting gratitude of a spoon-desolated country for the +strategy displayed in tearing off the plumes of the American +Polyphemus, and fixing that precious flower of knighthood among the +"bottled" curiosities of natural history.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_five" id="Page_five"> +[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width:350px;"> +<img width="350" height="67" src="images/image016j.png" alt="the american cyclops" title="" /> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width:130px"> +<img width="130" height="31" src="images/image013.png" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Progressive age! for contemplation's eye,<br /> +Thy checker'd scenes a glorious field supply;<br /> +Time was when Mercury waved the potent wand,<br /> +And Nature brightened in the artist's hand,—<br /> +When mind's dominion round the world was thrown,<br /> +Before usurping Mammon seized the throne.<br /> +Aspiring genius, chill thy noble rage,<br /> +For baser uses rule our iron age;<br /> +Drive the hard bargain, mart for sordid gain,<br /> +And where it will not win, hold honor vain;</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_six" id="Page_six"> +[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 376px;"> +<a name="pic2" id="pic2"></a> +<img src="images/image002.png" class="border" width="376" height="627" alt="He wakes a patriot" title="" /> + + +<p class="caption"><span class="right">Picture 2.</span>"He wakes a patriot, presto, he is clad<br /> +As Fallstaff for the battle—raving mad." +<span class="right"><a href="#patriot"><i>Page</i> 21</a>.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_seven" id="Page_seven"> +[Pg 7]</a></span></p> + +<p>To lofty subjects bring the narrow view,<br /> +Shift with each scene, and principle eschew.<br /> +Are these the elements of man's success?<br /> +Go where the busy throng all onward press;<br /> +Ay, there they flourish and will long remain,<br /> +Till virtue purge the haunts where vice doth reign.<br /> +Not to the few the moral taint's confined,<br /> +But in its boundless range infects mankind;<br /> +'Twere idle to upbraid the good old plea—<br /> +Might governs all, the rest were mock'ry.<br /> +The plumpest fly a sparrow's meal provides—<br /> +The heartless bird its agony derides:<br /> +"Nay," quoth relentless Sparrow, "you must die,<br /> +For you, weak thing, are not so strong as I."<br /> +A Hawk surprised him at his dainty meal,<br /> +In vain the Sparrow gasped his last appeal;</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_eight" id="Page_eight"> +[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<a name="pic3" id="pic3"></a> +<img src="images/image003.png" class="border" width="600" height="427" alt="The fearful groom" title="" /> + +<p class="caption" style="width: 500px;"><span class="right">Picture 3.</span>"The faithful groom the pawing steed attends,<br /> +The maudlin Cyclops all oblique ascends;<br /> +But ere the lambent flames consume the town<br /> +The Cid unhorsed, like Bacchus, topples down." +<span class="right"><a href="#groom"><i>Page</i> 21</a>.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_nine" id="Page_nine"> +[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Wherefore, Sir Hawk, must I, thy victim, die?"<br /> +"Peace," quoth the Hawk, "thou art less strong than I."<br /> +Grimly an Eagle viewed the state of matters,<br /> +Swoops on Sir Hawk, and tears his flesh to tatters:<br /> +"Release me, King, and doom me not to die;"<br /> +The Eagle said, "thou art less strong than I."<br /> +A bullet whistled at the victor's word,<br /> +And pierced the bosom of the lordly bird;<br /> +"Ah, tyrant!" shrieked he, "wherefore must I die?"<br /> +The Sportsman said, "thou art less strong than I."<br /> +And thus the world to might becomes the dower,<br /> +While justice yields before remorseless power.<br /><br /></p> + + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_ten" id="Page_ten"> +[Pg 10]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<a name="pic4" id="pic4"></a> +<img src="images/image004.png" width="600" class="border" height="410" alt="He blew a warlike..." title="" /> + + +<p class="caption" style="width: 500px;"><span class="right">Picture 4.</span>"He blew a warlike trump<br /> +And marched to conquest—conquest of a pump."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#warlike"><i>Page</i> 23</a>.</span> +</p> +</div> + + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_eleven" id="Page_eleven"> +[Pg 11]</a></span></p> + +<p>When distant ages rise to view our times,<br /> +Whate'er betide our <i>silv'ry</i> flowing rhymes,<br /> +The brave we sing—Bœotian of the East<br /> +Will still survive to spread the mimic feast.<br /> +'Tis said in fables that Silenus old<br /> +To Midas lent the fatal gift of gold;<br /> +But Terminus, the god of rogues, has giv'n<br /> +Our hero gold unbless'd of man or heav'n.<br /> +'Mid all the tyrants of our age and clime,<br /> +He stands alone in infamy and crime;<br /> +Not e'en Thersites of the cunning tribe,<br /> +Gloried in guile like him we now describe.<br /> +Born of a race where thrift, with iron rod,<br /> +Taught punic faith and mocked the laws of God;<br /> +Where stern oppression held her impious reign,<br /> +And mild dissent was death with torturous pain;<br /> +His <a name="youth" id="youth"></a>youth drank in the lessons of his race,<a href="#pic8"><span class="right2">[See picture 8]</span></a><br /> +Which stamp'd their impress on his hideous face.</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twelve" id="Page_twelve"> +[Pg 12]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<a name="pic5" id="pic5"></a> +<img src="images/image005.png" class="border" width="600" height="443" alt="Like Fallstaff..." title="" /> + +<p class="caption" style="width: 500px;"><span class="right">Picture 5.</span>"Like Fallstaff, seeks repose and dreams of glory,<br /> +While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#fallstaff"><i>Page</i> 23</a>.</span> +</p> +</div> + + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_thirteen" id="Page_thirteen"> +[Pg 13]</a></span></p> + +<p>Old England's bard with epic fire illum'd<br /> +Tartarean pits, where fiends with darkness gloom'd;<br /> +But 'mid th' infernal host this face had shone,<br /> +Grimmest of all 'neath dread Armageddon.<br /> +The outward form proclaimed the inner man,<br /> +And frightened virtue fled where it began;<br /> +The heart, the head, there devils might fear to dwell,<br /> +Lest in their depths there lurked a deeper hell,<br /> +Does fiction, fancy, gild the picture drawn,<br /> +Hate cloud our judgment, truth give place to scorn?<br /> +Go seek the answer in the youth at school—<br /> +He scoffs at church and laughs at human rule.<br /> +A beggar,<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a> +<a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> + he plays his <i>role</i> with brazen cheek,<br /> +With equal ease <i>insurgent</i> or a "sneak."</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_fourteen" id="Page_fourteen"> +[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<a name="pic6" id="pic6"></a> +<img src="images/image006.png" class="border" width="600" height="415" alt="Leaves gallant" title="" /> + +<p class="caption" style="width: 500px;"><span class="right">Picture 6.</span>"Leaves gallant Winthrop to his mournful fate,<br /> +But takes the field when haply 'tis too late."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#gallant"><i>Page</i> 23</a>.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_fifteen" id="Page_fifteen"> +[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + +<p>A theologian, without doctor's chair,<br /> +He dons the gown t' escape the task of prayer.<br /> +"Heresiarch recant, or leave the school:"<br /> +A recantation proved the knave no fool. +<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a> +<a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a><br /> +Behold him later in another sphere,<br /> +Where thieves abound and murderers appear;<br /> +Tricked out in low and meretricious art,<br /> +He plays with skill the pettifogger's part;<br /> +Chicanery's brought to succor darkest crime,<br /> +Too basely foul t' expose in decent rhyme.<br /> +Oh! shades of Littleton and Murray rise,<br /> +Where Webster trod and Choate all honor'd lies—<br /> +Rise to behold the satyr in their place,<br /> +Who points the moral of his clime and race;<br /> +And if decay and shame may wake thy grief,<br /> +Weep for New England cursed by such a chief.</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_sixteen" id="Page_sixteen"> +[Pg 16]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="pic7" id="pic7"></a> +<img src="images/image007.png" class="border" width="400" height="603" alt="Our hero vowed" title="" /> + + +<p class="caption"><span class="right">Picture 7.</span>"Our hero vowed Magruder's works to take,<br /> +Whereof the books no mention deign to make."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#hero"><i>Page</i> 23</a>.</span></p> +</div> + + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_seventeen" id="Page_seventeen"> +[Pg 17]</a></span> + +<br /><br /></p> + +<p>Oh! hapless hour, when from the stormy North,<br /> +This modern Cyclops marched repellent forth,<br /> +To slake his thirst for blood and plundered wealth,<br /> +Not as the soldier, but by fraud and stealth;<br /> +To waft the gales of death with horror rife<br /> +On helpless age, and wage with women strife:<br /> +To leave at Baltimore and New Orleans<br /> +The drunkard's name, or worse, the gibbet's scenes;<br /> +To license lust with all a lecher's rage,<br /> +And stab the virtue of a Christian age:</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_eighteen" id="Page_eighteen"> +[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="pic8" id="pic8"></a> +<img src="images/image008.png" class="border" width="400" height="645" alt="Born of a race" title="" /> +<p class="caption" style="width: 400px; margin-bottom: 0em;"><span class="right">Picture 8.</span>"Born of a race where thrift, with iron rod,<br /> +Taught punic faith and mocked the laws of God;<br /> +<span style="padding-left: 3em; letter-spacing: 1em;">*********</span><br /> +His youth drank in the lessons of his race,<br /> +Which stamp'd their impress on his hideous face."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#youth"><i>Page</i> 11</a>.</span></p> +</div> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_nineteen" id="Page_nineteen"> +[Pg 19]</a></span></p> + +<p>This single crime will fix a beastly name,<br /> +Fresh in immortal infamy and shame.<br /> +Whence comes his martial fame, who thus has soar'd,<br /> +While thousands fell and deadly cannon roar'd?<br /> +The <i>raw militia</i> of his native State <br /> +Had taught him war and made our hero great.<br /> +A <a name="pothouse" id="pothouse"></a>pot-house soldier, he parades by day,<a href="#pic1"><span class="right2">[See picture 1]</span></a><br /> +And drunk by night, he sighs the foe to slay;<br /> +In vision sees the future road to fame,<br /> +The bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame:<br /> +The gathered treasure of a teeming land<br /> +Glitters and falls beneath his blood-stained hand;<br /> +Plantations smiling, palaces all bright,<br /> +Stuff'd with their wealth of plate, dance to his sight,<br /> +And drunken Polyphemus<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a> +<a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> grimly swoons,</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twenty" id="Page_twenty"> +[Pg 20]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<a name="pic9" id="pic9"></a> +<img src="images/image009.png" class="border" width="600" height="384" alt="But Io Bacche" title="" /> + + +<p class="caption" style="width: 500px;"><span class="right">Picture 9.</span>"But <i>Io Bacche</i>! Victory comes at last—<br /> +Our doughty chief in New Orleans is cast;<br /> +The donkey stole the lion's skin and brayed,<br /> +And Farragut our Cyclop's fortune made."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#victory"><i>Page</i> 23</a>.</span> +</p> +</div> + + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twentyone" id="Page_twentyone"> +[Pg 21]</a></span></p> + +<p>As heir expectant of unnumbered spoons. +<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a> +<a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a><br /> +He wakes a <a name="patriot" id="patriot"></a>patriot; presto, he is clad<a href="#pic2"><span class="right2">[See picture 2]</span></a><br /> +As Fallstaff for the battle—raving mad.<br /> +Lo! Baltimore becomes the first emprise,<br /> +When Gilmor's scandal shock'd the men at Guy's:<br /> +"To horse, to horse," our hero drunk exclaims,<br /> +"I'll crush rebellion—give the town to flames."<br /> +The faithful <a name="groom" id="groom"></a>groom the pawing steed attends,<a href="#pic3"><span class="right2">[See picture 3]</span></a><br /> +The maudlin Cyclops all oblique ascends;<br /> +But ere the lambent flames consume the town,<br /> +The Cid unhorsed, like Bacchus, topples down.<br /> +Old Juno's goose erst saved imperial Rome,<br /> +But Rebel whisky saves the Rebels' home.<br /> +Next comes the dismal order—'tis from Scott—</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twentytwo" id="Page_twentytwo"> +[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 387px;"> +<a name="pic10" id="pic10"></a> +<img src="images/image010.png" class="border" width="387" height="598" alt="Fraternal discord cease." title="" /> + + +<p class="caption"><span class="right">Picture 10.</span>"Fraternal discord cease."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#fraternal"><i>Page</i> 27</a>.</span> +</p> +</div> + + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twentythree" id="Page_twentythree"> +[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Leave Baltimore." He blew <a name="warlike" id="warlike"></a>a warlike trump,<a href="#pic4"><span class="right2">[See picture 4]</span></a><br /> +And marched to conquest—conquest of a pump!<br /> +Like <a name="fallstaff" id="fallstaff"></a>Falstaff, seeks repose and dreams of glory,<a href="#pic5"><span class="right2">[See picture 5]</span></a><br /> +While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story;<br /> +Leaves <a name="gallant" id="gallant"></a>gallant Winthrop to his mournful fate,<a href="#pic6"><span class="right2">[See picture 6]</span></a><br /> +But takes the field when haply 'tis too late.<br /> +Wrath gnaws his bowels, and with words profane,<br /> +He swore an oath, as once the Queen of Spain<br /> +Vowed the same garment <i>malgrè</i> wear and tear,<br /> +Till Ostend fell she would forever wear.<br /> +Our <a name="hero" id="hero"></a>hero vowed Magruder's works to take,<a href="#pic7"><span class="right2">[See picture 7]</span></a><br /> +Whereof the books no mention deign to make;<br /> +For well we know the batt'ries poured their thunder,<br /> +While wise Sir Spoons sought easier paths to plunder.<br /> +But <i>Io Bacche</i>! <a name="victory" id="victory"></a>Victory comes at last—<a href="#pic9"><span class="right2">[See picture 9]</span></a><br /> +Our doughty chief in New Orleans is cast;</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twentyfour" id="Page_twentyfour"> +[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<a name="pic11" id="pic11"></a> +<img src="images/image011.png" class="border" width="600" height="433" alt="I'll blow Fort Fisher" title="" /> + + +<p class="caption" style="width: 500px;"><span class="right">Picture 11.</span>""I'll blow Fort Fisher 'mong the region kites!"<br /> +Oh, glorious thought! but ere the fort ignites,<br /> +Our Cyclop's sailed away infirm of will,<br /> +And saucy Fisher flashed defiance still."<br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#fort"><i>Page</i> 25.</a></span> +</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twentyfive" id="Page_twentyfive"> +[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + +<p>The donkey stole the lion's skin and brayed,<br /> +And Farragut our Cyclop's fortune made.<br /> +Where are the trophies of our Yankee brave?<br /> +The lecherous order, and poor Mumford's grave;<br /> +Ship Island's tortures, Mrs. Phillips' cell,<br /> +For mercy's reign the cruelty of hell;<br /> +A Shylock brother—a Prætorian band—<br /> +A starving city and a plundered land:<br /> +These are his triumphs—Fisher was his shame,—<br /> +Oh! triumph worse than is the coward's name.<br /> +<a name="fort" id="fort"></a>"I'll blow Fort Fisher 'mong the region kites!"<a href="#pic11"><span class="right2">[See picture 11]</span></a><br /> +Oh, glorious thought! but ere the fort ignites,<br /> +Our Cyclop's sailed away infirm of will,<br /> +And saucy Fisher flash'd defiance still.<br /> +"Far better I were <i>hermetically</i> seal'd,<br /> +Than homeward borne upon a bloody shield."</p> + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twentysix" id="Page_twentysix"> +[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="pic12" id="pic12"></a> +<img src="images/image012.png" class="border" width="400" height="640" alt="But hold, enough" title="" /> + + +<p class="caption"><span class="right">Picture 12.</span>"But hold, enough; no further we'll pursue<br /> +The modern Haynau. "Bottled" Chief, adieu." <br /> +<span class="right"><a href="#hold"><i>Page</i> 27</a>.</span></p> +</div> + + +<p><span class="left"><a name="Page_twentyseven" id="Page_twentyseven"> +[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Fort Fisher be my epitaph!" 'Tis meet,<br /> +For long ago it gave thy winding sheet.<br /> +But <a name ="hold" id="hold"></a>hold, enough; no further we'll pursue<a href="#pic12"><span class="right2">[See picture 12]</span></a><br /> +The modern Haynau. "Bottled" Chief, adieu.<br /> +Haply my country's freedom still remains,<br /> +And with the night have passed oppression's chains:<br /> +Oh, may the storms which settle o'er our land<br /> +Be gently lifted by th' all-saving Hand;<br /> +The dove return; <a name="fraternal" id="fraternal"></a>fraternal discord cease,<a href="#pic10"><span class="right2">[See picture 10]</span></a><br /> +And millions join the Jubilee of Peace!</p> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width:276px"> +<img src="images/image018.png" width="276" height="68" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + + +<div class="footnotes"> + +<h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a> +<a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> +<p style="line-height: 1.2em;">He entered College in his sixteenth year as a future +candidate for the ministry. As he was without resources, he was +compelled to do manual work to meet the expenses incurred at the +Institution. The fact is creditable.</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a> +<a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> +<p style="line-height: 1.2em;">Many instances are related of his insubordination at +school and disputes with superiors. One of the preachers having +advanced the opinion that only one in every hundred Christians would, +perhaps, be saved, our hero drew up a theological petition asking +leave to vacate his seat in church, very candidly regarding himself as +among the number that would be lost. A public reprimand for his smart +irreverence was the only answer vouchsafed the unfledged Doctor.</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a> +<a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> +<p style="line-height: 1.2em;"><i>Monstrum et horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen +ademptum.</i> Virg. Æneid. lib. iii.</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a> +<a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> +<p style="line-height: 1.2em;">The people of a captured city were subjected to fines and +levies and open plunder, and in some instances imprisoned at hard +labor with ball and chain.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Cyclops, the Hero of New +Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons, by James Fairfax McLaughlin + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN CYCLOPS *** + +***** This file should be named 21274-h.htm or 21274-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/2/7/21274/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness, David T. 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