Now fancy breeding shorthorns when
you might breed long heads." So Vespasian was to engender Young Africa;
he was to be first elevated morally and intellectually as high as he
would go, and then set to breed; his partner, of course, to be elected by
Fullalove, and educated as high as she would consent to without an
illicit connection with the Experimentalist. He would be down on their
Pickaninnies before the parents could transfer the remnant of their own
weaknesses to them, polysyllables included, and would polish these ebony
chips; and at the next cross reckoned to rear a genius, by which time, as
near as he could calculate, he the Theorist would be in his dotage: and
all the better; make a curious contrast in favour of Young Africa.
Vespasian could not hit a barn door sitting--with a rifle! it was purely
with a view to his moral improvement mind you, that Fullalove invited him
into the mizentop to fight the pirate. The Patient came gingerly and
shivered there with fear. But five minutes elapsing, and he not killed,
that weakness gave way to a jocund recklessness; and he kept them all gay
with his quaint remarks, of which I must record but one.
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