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the swiftness of the avalanche, sweeping-
all, Premchund included. The fury was
great, but neither he nor any one else had
anticipated that they would be so quickly
overtaken. Not that there were no
cautious and circumspect men in the city,
cool-headed, with a knowledge of similar
phenomena which had overtaken those
who were caught in the vortex of the
world-famous South Sea Bubble or the
Tulipomania of the early eighteenth
century. There were such. But they
were unto like the prophets crying in the
wilderness, while the merry game of the
maddest of mad speculation was rife.
Their effort to stem that tide was as boot-
less as that of the proverbial Miss Parting-
ton to arrest the surging billows of the
Atlantic with her mop. When a whole
population is seized with a kind of tem-
porary insanity it is hopeless for the most
skilful physician to cure the malady.
The malady which overtook small and
large investors had also seized Prem-
all, Premchund included. The fury was
great, but neither he nor any one else had
anticipated that they would be so quickly
overtaken. Not that there were no
cautious and circumspect men in the city,
cool-headed, with a knowledge of similar
phenomena which had overtaken those
who were caught in the vortex of the
world-famous South Sea Bubble or the
Tulipomania of the early eighteenth
century. There were such. But they
were unto like the prophets crying in the
wilderness, while the merry game of the
maddest of mad speculation was rife.
Their effort to stem that tide was as boot-
less as that of the proverbial Miss Parting-
ton to arrest the surging billows of the
Atlantic with her mop. When a whole
population is seized with a kind of tem-
porary insanity it is hopeless for the most
skilful physician to cure the malady.
The malady which overtook small and
large investors had also seized Prem-