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Excerpt from Lands of the Slave and the Free, or Cuba, the United States, and Canada, Vol. 1
One makes an excuse for tediousness; a second makes an apology for delay; a third makes his en deavours plead for favourable reception, &0. Then again you have the interrogator, wherein a reader is found before the work is printed, convenient ques tions are put into his mouth, and ready replies are given, to which no rejoinder is permitted. This is very astute practice. - Then again there is the puffer and condenser, wherein, if matter be wanting in the work, a prefacial waggon is put before the chapters] pony, the former acting the part Of pemican, or concentrated essence, the latter representing the liquid necessary for cooking it; the whole forming a potage an lecteur, known among professional men as soldier's broth.'
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