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It is a ludicrous picture, as one sees it in one's mind's eye, but what comes after reaches the extremity of farce.

More especially must this have been the case when the boats were propelled by oars, and in one's mind's eye one can picture the fleets of the Egyptian Queen Hatasou and of King Solomon from Eziongeber creeping cautiously along this coast and returning after three years' absence in far distant regions laden with precious freights of gold, frankincense, and spices.

With the work of the great Jan Van Eyck in one's mind's eye, of course this will appear one of those little lapses of memory so convenient to German national sentiment.

One can see the happy family in one's mind's eye as distinctly as if it was already constituted.