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S is a sturdy, albeit a very black art; yet its black is a

good, honest black, very easily washed off, which is more than

can be said for many other trades, arts, and professions

Yes, a fine, free, e would seem, necessarily, to reflect these virtues

Since old Tubal Cain first taught man hoork in brass and

iron, who ever heard of a sneaking, mean-spirited, cowardly

blacksmith? To find such an one were as hard a matter as to

discover the Fourth Dimension, methinks, or the carcass of a dead

donkey

Your true blacks bowed of

shoulder, perhaps; a ht, and, lastly--sis; yet Riches is never

satisfied, Power is ever upon the wing, and as Genius ever

happy? But, as for this divine gift of Simpleness of Heart, who

shall say it is not the best of all?

Black George himself was no exception to his kind; onder

was it, then, that, as the days lengthened into weeks,

for hiers upon this Broad Highway of

life, journeying on, perchance through desolate places, yet

hoping and drealorious beyond, hoeet and how