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O Jonah was exceeding glad of the Gourd. I can understand his feelings perfectly. Does it not happen to most of us, at least once in a lifetime, thus to be "exceeding glad of the Gourd," and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred with the same result?" Nil violentum est perpetuum. So surely as it comes up in a night, so surely must it wither in a day You have been in a hot climate? I don't intend any disagreeable allusion, I mean the tropics, I give you my honour! Do you not