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FINDING COPPERS IN THEIR RAGS
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CONVICTION OF OUR OCCULT POWER GROWS
- body's clothes.
News of this goes abroad; it brings a swarm of beggars down upon us, and henceforth prudence counsels me to find nothing more valuable than copper coins. Of course these are claimed by the people in whose dirty rags I pretend to find them. Loudly they sing the praises of my mystic power and my generosity; many are the volunteers eager to submit to my profitable laying-on of hands. And all this time the throng is growing. The report is spread that two great "Marabouts," or wonder-
