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The high priests made speeches full of apparent reverence and occult phraseology. Joshes on professors and students were lavishly sprinkled among the speeches and were delivered in the most serious and recondite manner possible.

And after a ritual was gone thorugh with the high priests and vassals humbled themselves before the chief high priests, and on rising passed in review, and as each supplicant passed before the "high cockalorum," he