Pogram

As the general evening meal of the house was over before the arrival of the boat, Martin, Mark, and Pogram were taking tea and fixings at the public table by themselves, when the deputation entered to announce this honour; consisting of six gentlemen boarders and a very shrill boy.

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If Pogram was as glad to get to bed as Martin was, he must have been well rewarded for his labours.

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Pogram (he voted for Pogram) had thundered the last sentence from his seat in Congress, at the head of an unpopular President.

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Our own immortal Chiggle, sir, is said to have observed, when he made the celebrated Pogram statter in marble, which rose so much con – test and preju – dice in Europe, that the brow was more than mortal.

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For it was known that when a woman like Mrs Hominy encountered a man like Pogram, something interesting must be said.

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How Pogram got out of his depth instantly, and how the three L.

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‘I con – sider the cause of this to be,’ said Pogram, looking round again and taking himself up where Martin had interrupted him, ‘partly jealousy and pre – judice, and partly the nat’ral unfitness of the British people to appreciate the ex – alted Institutions of our native land.

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The Honourable Elijah Pogram and Martin found themselves, after a severe struggle, side by side, as they might have come together in the pit of a London theatre; and for four whole minutes afterwards, Pogram was snapping up great blocks of everything he could get hold of, like a raven.

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A knot of passengers gathered round to hear what followed; and Martin heard his friend say, as he whispered to another friend, and rubbed his hands, ‘Pogram will smash him into sky – blue fits, I know!’

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That homage paid, the mother of the modern Gracchi called for chairs, and the three literary ladies went to work in earnest, to bring poor Pogram out, and make him show himself in all his brilliant colours.

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