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my first newspaper article. I burlesqued it broadly, very broadly,
stringing my faiitastics out to the extent of eight hundred or a

was a *eub* at

the time. I showed my performance to some pilots, and they eagerly
rushed it into print in the 'New Orleans True Delta.* It was a
great pity; for it did nobody any worthy service, and it sent a pang
will be 4 feet deep in Canal street before the first of next June* Mrs, Tomer's
plantation at the head of Big Black Island is all under water, and it has not
been since 1815.
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