Word: gophers
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...Jacob's Oil. ["Cures all affections of the lungs!" "The 'only' panacea!" "Millions in it!"] Finally, at a German reading, when I tried calmly to enjoy the beauties of Goethe, I found myself perfectly competent to give an elaborate and exact account of the natural history of the gopher, Apollinaris Water, and Freshmen. But this isn't all. If this chaos of uncertainty, this boiling, seething torrent of confusion, this benumbing consciousness of the unreality of the existent, took possession of my mind only while actually at the lectures and readings, there would be some balm in Gilead to soothe...