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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

CHAPTER LXXI
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We sweat for the fowls, as well as ourselves.

The curse of labor rests only on us.

Like slaves, we toil: at their good leisure they glean.
"'Mardi is not wholly ours.

We are the least populous part of creation.

To say nothing of other tribes, a census of the herring would find us far in the minority.


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