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you as mad as a March hare, and you

will do fic a devilish deal of mischief, that it will be necessary to blude you and drench you, and chain you to the bed-post; and sometimes to divert the wildness of your phrenzy, your keeper may let you amuse yourself with a rattle; even if you come back to your senses, he will keep you confined for twa razons; first, because it is his interest; and secondly, because if you got loose again, your indignation would certainly gar you dash the fallow's brains out." "But if it have so maddening effects," said Hamilton, "how am I to submit to a keeper?" "Oh, he'll first flatter and cajole you, till he get you to take the strait waistcoat; by degrees he'll bind you to a post, and afterwards chain you to the ground." Having thus described innovation snuff, it's progressive operations and ultimate result, he set

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