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"Jove! there he is, sure enough, and riding a camel too. What is come over Samson Cereal, the sedate king of the wheat pit? I am amazed! " declares the Canadian.
"My dear fellow, you should be surprised at nothing here. I tell you it's in the air. Haven't I seen one of the most learned professors of Yale perched on the hump of a camel, grinning from ear to ear; while his companion, a preacher whose name is a household word from the Atlantic to the Pacific, whose sermons are weekly printed wherever the English language is spoken, trotted up and down this street on a diminutive donkey, his feet scraping the ground. I'd have given something for a snap-shot camera at that time. Look at our friend -- he's enjoying the lark as much as would a schoolboy."