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The excerpt opens with Goethe styled lines urging steadfast purpose and restraint, then shifts to a long sensational court scene from Orange County. The People against James Allington concerns a plank-road toll dispute escalated into a comic trial with Dodder, witnesses, and courtroom antics. The piece ends with Barnum on humbugs and other sketches.
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Orange County Court
Mewburgh
James Allington
Dodder
Minisink
Allington
Mr. Dodder
The
Plank Road Company
Dodder No
Orange County
Dovider
Court of High Heaven
Gentemen
Sam
Barbour
Plymouth Rock
Mary Allington
Minisisk
Ile
Cauginnati
Connecticut
Hin
Col. Fremont
Rocky Mountains
Gila
Col. Benton
Lovejoy’s Hotel
Bridgeport
Humb
England
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