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six per cents. It is not a world in which a man can live till he is ready to die, and say to his soul: "Eat, drink and be merry." The preachers had told him so till it became a bore, and now he considers himself swindled. He is, therefore, not prepared to take a very hopeful view of public affairs. Mr. Snooks, for example, though he has never been below to inspect the ballast, is of opinion that the Confederate ship carries too much sail and careens awfully. He is always rode by Yankee Doodle — now in the shape of a gunboat; now in the shape of a raider's horse, a very pretty kind of nightmare to a gentleman of weak nerves; and now of a halter. He proposes to consider himself enslaved to the Yankees — destined to become the personal property of a lank man, attached to a long nose, and to hoe his corn or drive his chariot, whilst Mrs. Snooks does the cooking in the kitchen. The ears of Snooks are always pricked up to hear if any Confederate town or garrison has fallen, in wh