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Woe and death fill the night in a sorrowful vision
A long, irregular prose piece blends dirge like lines on death and divine judgment with comic vignettes about a man named John and a girl named Mabel, interwoven with short dialogues, farmer anecdotes, and a joke about corn. The text shifts from lament to domestic scene to rural humor, ending with a spoof on corn types and a Fort Post joke.
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Jolia Waa
Joha
John Eldred
John
Gertrude
Judge Clark
Mabel New
Mabel
Ifter
Bho
Timothy
North Wood
Jim
Boalt
Mabel Clark
Joba
Bia View
Bone
Toho
Judge
Hartsfort Post