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138 minutes sufficed for the consultation when they seperated and each took his seat, except one. He deliberately took a lighted candle from the table, and stooping down behind the old man's chair set fire to the paper while he was reading one of the top advertisements. What a conflagration was there, my countrymen! The paper was wrapped in flames before he was aware of the trick, and had not only burned his hands, but singed his eyebrows and hair. Never was man more furious. None knew who did the deed; and in order that he might be sure to punish the right one; chairs, stools, books, candlesticks, and whatever else he could lay his hands upon were sent in rapid succession on errands of destruction at the different heads about the room. He scratched his head, stamped, spluttered and "seemed as man ne'er seemed before." "Now, look here!" cried he; "the chap that did that air?, just step out here, if he be a man - Ill eat him up in just about half of no time--you long, slab-sided, bean-pole pugnosed blackball! What use was there in it? You didn't get nothing by it, no how! Eh! you great yonker! Just step out here, and I'll walk into your affections in little less than no time. I'll whip the whole on you--in a lump--or singly--you mean, lowlived boobies! You western catamounts! You lizards! You pukes! You scum