The clergyman, who was a Wesleyan, said he was as wild as a young buffalo bull; butthe manner in which he said so led his hearers to conclude that he did not thinksuch a state of ungovernable madness to be a hopeless condition, by any means.The doctor said he was as mad as a hatter; but this was an indefinite remark, worthy of a doctor who had never obtained a diploma, and required explanation, inasmuch as it was impossible to know how mad he considered a hatter to be. Someof the trappers who came to the settlement for ...
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The clergyman, who was a Wesleyan, said he was as wild as a young buffalo bull; butthe manner in which he said so led his hearers to conclude that he did not thinksuch a state of ungovernable madness to be a hopeless condition, by any means.The doctor said he was as mad as a hatter; but this was an indefinite remark, worthy of a doctor who had never obtained a diploma, and required explanation, inasmuch as it was impossible to know how mad he considered a hatter to be. Someof the trappers who came to the settlement for powder and lead, said he was asmad as a grisly bear with a whooping-cough-a remark which, if true, might tend tothrow light on the diseases to which the grisly bear is liable, but which failed toindicate to any one, except perhaps trappers, the extent of young Marston'smadness. The carpenter and the blacksmith of the place-who were fast friends andhad a pitched battle only once a month, or twice at most-agreed in saying that hewas as mad as a wild-cat. In short, every one asserted stoutly that the boy was mad, with the exception of the women of the settlement, who thought him a fine, bold, handsome fellow; and his own mother, who thought him a paragon of perfection, and who held the opinion (privately) that, in the wide range of the habitable globethere was not another like him-and she was not far w
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Used-Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Undated reprint, c.1920. Gift inscription on front free end paper; end papers browned; page fore-edge foxed; spine a little bumped at head & foot; nick in green cloth at bottom edge of front board.
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