alified
for the task as himself.

Finding these preliminary remarks taken in good part, he commenced the
process of "cramming."

"But oh, my friend," said he, with a most sanctimonious air, "did you
visit, and I am ashamed as an American citizen to ask the question, I
feel the blood a tannin' of my cheek when I inquire, did you visit the
South? That land that is polluted with slavery, that land where
the boastin' and crackin' of freemen pile up the agony pangs on the
corroding wounds inflicted by the iron chains of the slave, until natur
can't stand it no more; my heart bleeds like a stuck critter, when I
think of this plague spot on the body politic. I ought not to speak
thus; prudence forbids it, national pride forbids it; but genu_wine_
feelings is too strong for polite forms. 'Out of the fulness of the
heart the mouth speaketh.' Have you been there?"

"Turkey" was thrown off his guard, he opened his wallet, which was well
stocked, and retailed his stories, many of them so very rich, that I
doubted the capacity of the Attache to out-Herod him. Mr. Slick received
these tales with evident horror, and complimented the narrator with a
well simulated groan; and when he had done, said, "Ah, I see how it
is, they have purposely kept dark about the most atrocious features of
slavery. Have you never seen the Gougin' School?"

"No, never."

"What, not seen the Gougin' School?"

"No, Sir; I never heard of it."

"Why, you don't mean to say so?"

"I do, indeed, I assure you."

"Well, if that don't pass! And you never even heerd tell of it, eh?"

"Never, Sir. I have never either seen it or heard of it."

"I thought as much," said Mr. Slick. "I doubt if any Britisher ever did
or ever will see it. Well, Sir, in South Carolina, there is a man called
Josiah Wormwood; I am ashamed to say he is a Connecticut man. For a
considerable of a spell, he was a strollin' preacher, but it didn't
pay in the long run. There is so much competition in that line in our
country, that he consaited the business was overdone, and he opened a
Lyceum to Charleston South Car, for boxin', wrestlin' and other purlite
British accomplishments; and a most a beautiful sparrer he is, too; I
don't know as I ever see a more scientific gentleman than he is, in
that line. Lately, he has halfed on to it the art of gougin' or
'monokolisin,' as he calls it, to sound grand; and if it weren't so
dreadful in its consequences, it sartinly is amost allurin' thing