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A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE.
But the premiums, great as they were, which Bulhngs was known to have harvested from this preceding concern were absolutely as nothing to what seemed now in prospect from his grand sub-consolidation scheme. He was of the boldest among speculators, and the amount of stock he contrived to hold, by aid of loans and contangoes, in support of his own market, was the marvel of the day. Of course, on the rising market this was all profit multiplying profit. His great opponents were the Bears Brothers, who were as speculatively bold in selling and depreciating his stock, as Bullings himself was in buying and buoying it up. But hitherto Bullings had routed the Bears in every direction along the whole line of battle.
