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ripening of corn, requiring
the heat of hard work, indeed,
but above all the ripening effect of
time. Meantime, I have been making
many and many an attack upon the
gamma fortress, and have captured
sundry redouts. Of
course, I can work with it. But that
only supposes such a degree of mastery
as one has of a language when one
can think in that language. How many
people fancy that they know a language
very well when they can think
in it. If they pursue the study, they will
afterward turn back and see that that