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Blackshear energies at unomedical.com
Thu Aug 20 18:26:36 UTC 2009


Eshmenting in this Isle of the Brave and Land of the Free, by which he
means to say Britannia. Laconically, "I am the Boy at Mugby," he
announces. "That's about what _I_ am." His exact location he describes
almost with the precision of one giving latitude and
longitude--explaining to a nicety where his stand is taken. "Up in a
corner of the Down Refreshment Room at Mugby Junction," in the height of
twenty-seven draughts [he's counted 'em, he tells us parenthetically, as
they brush the First Class, hair twenty-seven ways], bounded on the
nor'-west by the beer, and so on. He himself, he frankly informs you--in
the event of your ever presenting yourself there before him at the
counter, in quest of nourishment of any kind, either liquid or
solid--will seem not to hear you, and will appear "in a absent manner to
survey the Line through a transparent medium composed of your head and
body," determined evidently not to serve you, that is, as long as you
can possibly bear it! "That's me!" cries the Boy at Mugby,
exultantly,--adding, with an intense relish for his occupation, "what a
delightful lark it is!" As for the eatables and drinkables habitually
set forth upon the counter, by what he generally speaks of as the
Refreshmenters, quoth the Boy at Mugby, in a _naif_ confidence,
addressed to you in your capacity at once as applicant and victim, "when
you're telegraphed, you should see 'em begin to pitch the stale pastry
into the plates, and chuck th
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