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142 'Faith, when I heard him railing in crank terms,

And dislocating language in his howl

At Phantasm Captains, Hair-and-leather Popes,

Terrestrial Law-words, Lords, and Law-bringers,—

I almost wished the Graduate back again:

His style of cursing had some flavour in't;

The other's was most tedious.

Now for that Graduate. Again we may assume, that whoso remembers how Blackwood dealt with Ruskin's Lectures, will be prepared for the scene between }} and a :"

Later in the piece, the Graduate is walked off by the Inquisition satellites to an auto-da-fé, for his "monstrous deed in blowing up the church." At the pile, having craved and obtained the Inquisitor's permission to say a word or two,—and albeit the indignant populace hailed him with a whole storm of cats and baser missiles,Excellent fooling, possibly, of its kind. But if the Graduate never meets with more damaging onslaught than this, he can afford to be tolerably quiet from fear of evil. Far more pungent is the ensuing account of the North country gentleman who signs himself Apollodorus and "does"