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252 plish many things for which Butler would have been highly pleased to have strangled me, could he have discovered what was about. And I did manage to do several tolerably good strokes of work before New Orleans became too unpleasant a place for me to abide in, and I was forced to the conclusion that it was best for me to take up my quarters elsewhere, out side of Butler's jurisdiction.