Drink and be refreshed . The water is as pure and cold as that which slaked the thirst of the red sagamore beneath the aged boughs , though now the gem of the wilderness is treasured under these hot stones , where no shadow falls but from the brick buildings . And be it the moral of my story that , as this wasted and long-lost fountain is now known and prized again , so shall the virtues of cold water -- too little valued since your fathers ' days -- be recognized by all . Your pardon , good people ! I must interrupt my stream of eloquence and spout forth a stream of water to replenish the trough for this teamster and his two yoke of oxen , who have come from Topsfield , or somewhere along that way . No part of my business is pleasanter than the watering of cattle . Look ! how rapidly they lower the water-mark on the sides of the trough , till their capacious stomachs are moistened with a gallon or two apiece and they can afford time to breathe it in with sighs of calm enjoyment . Now they roll their quiet eyes around the brim of their monstrous drinking-vessel . An ox is your true toper . But I perceive , my dear auditors , that you are impatient for the remainder of my discourse . Impute it , I beseech you , to no defect of modesty if I insist a little longer on so fruitful a topic as my own multifarious merits . It is altogether for your good . The better you think of me , the better men and women you will find yourselves . I shall say nothing of my all-important aid on washing-days , though on that account alone I might call myself the household god of a hundred families . Far be it from me , also , to hint , my respectable friends , at the show of dirty faces which you would present without my pains to keep you clean . Nor will I remind you how often , when the midnight bells make you tremble for your combustible town , you have fled to the town-pump and found me always at my post firm amid the confusion and ready to drain my vital current in your behalf . Neither is it worth while to lay much stress on my claims to a medical diploma as the physician whose simple rule of practice is preferable to all the nauseous lore which has found men sick , or left them so , since the days of Hippocrates . Let us take a broader view of my beneficial influence on mankind . No ; these are trifles , compared with the merits which wise men concede to me -- if not in my single self , yet as the representative of a class -- of being the grand reformer of the age .
From my spout , and such spouts as mine , must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast portion XXXXX its crime and anguish which has gushed from the fiery fountains of the still .
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