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A SONG, A BOTTLE, AND A GHOST.
All day John Brown, ex-clergyman and quack-doctor, harangued the people of Chaudiere from his gaily-painted wagon.

He had the perfect gift of the charlatan, and he had discovered his metier.

Inclined to the picturesque by nature, melodramatic and empirical, his earlier career had been the due fruit of habit and education.

As a dabbler in mines he had been out of his element.