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Show Prentice on Train. Geo. 1). Prentice thus photograhed George Francis Train : A locomotive that has run oft' the track, turned upside down, with its cow-catcher buried ;u u smuip, and the wheels leaking a thousand revolutions a minute a kite in the air which has lost its tail a human novel without a hero a man who climbs a tree fur a, bird's nest out on the limb, and in order to get it tavy.s the limb off between be-tween himself and the tree a ship without a rudder a clock without hands a sermon that is all text a pantomime of words an arrow shot in the air the apotheosis of talk the incarnation of gab. Handsome, , iva-cinu.s, iva-cinu.s, versatile!, muscular, neat as a eat, clean to the marrow, a judge of the effect of eluthei, frugal ju food, and regular only in habits a noon-day mystery a solved conundrum a practical prac-tical joke in earnest a cipher hunting a figure to past, fir something: w',tb, the brains of twenty men. in Lis head all pulling ditTeirnt ways; not bad as to heart, hut a man who has shaken hands with reverence. |