But what an epoch in the xian world—what a time for a xian Orator to make a deep & eternal impression on socity.

That honest wagoner is thinking of his dinner, getting sadly dry in the oven at this late hour; but he will not touch it till he has fed his horses,–the strong, submissive, meek-eyed beasts, who, I fancy, are looking mild reproach at him from between their blinkers, that he should crack his whip at them in that awful manner as if they needed that hint!

John Hancock is a famous signer of the Declaration of Independence.

'We just have to get through without ballsing up