The procession took up the barkeeper and moved on with him again, and the
crowd broke up and scattered. As we went along home, Sandy said it was a
great success, and the barkeeper would have a right to be proud of it
forever. And he said we were in luck, too; said we might attend
receptions for forty thousand years to come, and not have a chance to see
a brace of such grand moguls as Moses and Esau. We found afterwards that
we had come near seeing another patriarch, and likewise a genuine prophet
besides, but at the last moment they sent regrets. Sandy said there
would be a monument put up there, where Moses and Esau had stood, with
the date and circumstances, and all about the whole business, and
travellers would come for thousands of years and gawk at it, and climb
over it, and scribble their names on it.
Footnotes:
{9} The captain could not remember what this word was. He said it was
in a foreign tongue.
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