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"Believe me, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
"GEORGE HACKMATACK"
The Cabinet had the good sense to act on my advice. My information proved nearly correct, the only error being one of seven minutes in the downfall of the 1823 Constitution. This arose from my making no allowance for difference of longitude between Piaut, where their government was established, and Opee, where it was crushed. The difference of time between those places is six minutes and fifty-three seconds, as the reader may see on a globe.
Estremadura was, of course, presented to the President, and sold his scrip.]
7.Newspaper men of 1868 will be amused to think that half past one was late in 1836. At that time the "Great Western Mail" was due in Boston at 6 P.M., and there was no later news except "local," or an occasional horse express.
8.The reader will observe the Arcadian habits of 1836, when the German was yet unknown.
9.Anno Christi, 60.
10.Tacit. Annal., xiv. 9
11.Anno Christi, 60. See Neander, P. & T., B. iii. ch. x
12.This correspondence, as preserved in the collections of fragments, has too much the aspect of a school-boy exercise to claim much credit, though high authorities support it as genuine. But the probability that there was such a correspondence, though now lost, is very strong.
13.The Fire Alarm is the invention of Dr. William F. Channing:
"A wizard of such dreaded fame,
That when in Salamanca's cave,
Him listed his magic wand to wave,
The bells would ring in Notre Dame"
14.I am proud to say that such suggestions have had so much weight, that in 1868 the alarm strikes the number of the box which first telegraphs danger, six-four, six-four, &c., six being the district number, and four the box number in that district.
15.Tetrao lagopus.
16.Which means, "In the thirteenth century," my dear little bell and coral reader. You have rightly guessed that the question means "What is the history of the Reformation in Hungary?"
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