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Wheeler H. Clemens in the introduction says: Its delicious,unconscious ridiculousness and its enchanting naivety are as supreme andunapproachable in their way as Shakespeare's sublimities. ' Well, between drinks they'd swell around thecabin and strike attitudes and spout; and pretty soon they got out agreasy old deck and went to playing euchre at ten cents a corner--ontrust. Many of the robes were black--these would be thepriests--and the few scarlet ones would be the cardinals who might haveassembled for some royal martyrdom.
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