CHAPTER LX.
POLITICS.
"In course; I sez to ma--why, Lord bless me, it must have been three or four years ago--that 'twould all turn out so.

What's rotten will come to pieces, ma, sez I.Every year she sez to me, sez she, why ain't the Newts failed yet?
as you said they was going to.

Jest you be quiet, sez I, ma, it's comin'.

So 'twas.

I know'd all about it." President Van Boozenberg thus unburdened his mind and justified his vaticinations to the knot of gentlemen who were perpetually at the bank.
They listened, and said ah! and yes, and shook their heads; and the shaky ones wondered whether the astute financier had marked them and had said to ma, sez he, that for all they looked so bright and crowded canvas so smartly, they are shaky, ma--shaky.
General Belch heard the news at his office.