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starer, while  the  young  husband  beside  her  tries  in vain  to  appear  as  if  used  to  it. There is  the  lean  and hungry, most  bland  and  voluble  lawyer,  with  long hooked nose  and  bald  head,  with  sword  cane  and  con- cealed dering;er : and  there  the  hard  headed  and  hard- hearted politician,  who  deals  in  the  patriotism  of  the American people  as  the  pawnbroker  deals  in  the sufferings of  the  poor. This political  huckster,  hav- ing had in  his  time  a  monopoly  of  certain  souls  in certain  districts,  but  having  meanwhile  sold  his  own soul to  Satan  many  times  on  one  side  of  the  conti- nent, now seeks  a  new  market  on  the  other. There is the  little  scrawny  avaricious  old  woman,  probably the most  disgusting,  at  the  same  time  the  most  piti- able object on  board,  going  out  solitary  and  alone  to wash  or  nurse  or  otherwise  work  and  hoard,  if  per- adventure she  may  scrape  together  a  little  gold  be- fore she dies. There is  a  family,  father,  mother,  and daughter, the  latter  of  that  silly  simpering  age  which fancies the  eyes  of  all  the  world  to  be  perpetually resting on  herself;  there  the  man  of  business  with two females  in  charge,  bustling  about  under  his  load of responsibility;  there  the  sleepy  young  man,  there the lack-a-daisical  young  woman — sheep  among  wolves — and there  one,  ill-mannered  and  awkward,  fresh from clod-breaking  and  swine-tending,  yet  whose  eyes flash intelligence  and  whose  broad  brow  and  firm  lip show fifty  years  of  determined  perseverance  and  self- denial, if  so  be  so  much  should  stand  between  him and success.

Noah's ark  presented  no  more  incongruous  gather- ing. More than  thirty  different  nations  are  repre- sented on this  deck ;  men  and  women  of  almost  every land in  Christendom  and  many  beyond  that  line,  of divers  colors  and  strange  speech,  the  lank  smart  Yan- kee, always at  home;  the  tall  bony  hairy  western man, uncultured  yet  thoughtful,  who  comes  so  far east to  get  a  start  for  a  farther  west;  cattle  drivers from the   north  and  negro   drivers   from  the  south ;