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CROTCHET CASTLE.
There wants nothing but money to set it going. I will explain myself clearly and fully by reading a paper. (Producing a large scroll.) "In the infancy of society—"
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
Pray, Mr. Mac Quedy, how is it that all gentlemen of your nation begin every thing they write with the "infancy of society"?
MR. MAC QUEDY.
Eh, sir, it is the simplest way to begin at the beginning. "In the infancy of society, when government was invented to save a percentage; say two and a half per cent—."
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
I will not say any such thing.
MR. MAC QUEDY.
Well, say any percentage you please.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
I will not say any percentage at all.
