Properly treated and fully expanded, this subject of "the stick" would cover all the races of man in all regions and all ages; indeed, it would hide every member of the human family. Attention could be called to the respect accorded in every chapter of the world's history, sacred and profane, to the _rabdos_--to the fasces of the Roman lictors, which every school-boy honours (often unconsciously) with an allusion when he says he will _lick_, or vows he won't be _licked_,--to the herald's staff of Hermes, the caduceus of Mercury, the wand of Æsculapius, and the rods of Moses and the contending sorcerers--to the mystic bundles of nine twigs, in honour of the nine muses, that Dr. Busby loved to…
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