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THE SOCDOLAGER.
As soon as I found my friend Mr.Hopewell comfortably settled in his lodgings, I went to the office of the Belgian Consul and other persons to obtain the necessary passports for visiting Germany, where I had a son at school.

Mr.Slick proceeded at the same time to the residence of his Excellency Abednego Layman, who had been sent to this country by the United States on a special mission, relative to the Tariff.
On my return from the city in the afternoon, he told me he had presented his credentials to "the Socdolager," and was most graciously and cordially received; but still, I could not fail to observe that there was an evident air of disappointment about him.
"Pray, what is the meaning of the Socdolager ?" I asked.

"I never heard of the term before." "Possible!" said he, "never heerd tell of 'the Socdolager,' why you don't say so! The Socdolager is the President of the lakes--he is the whale of the intarnal seas--the Indgians worshipped him once on a time, as the king of fishes.

He lives in great state in the deep waters, does the old boy, and he don't often shew himself.