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'S A M.”

OR, THE

HISTORY OF MYSTERY.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.

The Mysterious birth of "Sam"-Some of his Youthful Feats and Characteristic Eccentricities.

ONCE, when Earth, the good mother, was in grievous tribulation because of her children, and a voice of wailing was heard among the nations, a great cloud grew up suddenly in the East, and there seemed a sign of fire and tempest within its bosom.

All the peoples felt the shadow of this great cloud upon them, but they knew not what the strange portent meant, except that, to certain minds among them, it seemed that this gathering of mighty forces must be pregnant with some MYSTERY that was to step out from its bosom soon, as if the "Son of the morning" came forth from the caves of night, and that this mystery, too, was most like to stand as an embodiment, whether an incarnated embodiment or not, of some new birth of regeneration to all mankind.

Though it was thus the wise man spoke, or rather hoped, yet there was no one who knew these things to be true; therefore the people trembled, and were afraid, while the turmoil of this cloudy PRESENCE rolled with its slow shadow over them; and when they saw it take its way toward the West, over the solitary sea, they wondered greatly whither it might be speeding. Only the Viking's wandering prow had furrowed that solitary sea, as yet, when the great cloud set forth upon its face; but there were daring men who said

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