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Show CHAPTER X. ;INTELLECTUAL LIFEET a reform once break out, then put up the small pox flag upon every house in town, for none will escape. Foot-ball is no sooner found with the danger signal up than out pops one for base-ball. But who would have guessed that this new outburst for reform would have gone so far in Utonia as to include the present play of intelligence there? Yet it is noised about that this will suffer investigation next. However, objection can not prove serious enough to warrant its abolition; for in spite of all that may be intimated to the contrary, there is nothing dangerous in the intelligence displayed at Utonia. A few mild words were bandied upon two occasions with outside men of a Boulder type, but none came off the worse for it except, perhaps, for a few swollen heads and some slight dislocation of the jaw bones; and for a time after there were signs of a fall in temperature-but no worse results. In fact, we can say that with these exceptions nothing occurred in the past year to disturb the ordinary placid imbecility of Utonian thought.105 |