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Experience, the excellent shepherd of the Delectable Mountains, had a
brother in the army, and he was an equally excellent soldier. The two
brothers--they were twin-brothers--had been brought up together till they
were grown-up men in the same town of Mansoul. All the Experience
family, indeed, had from time immemorial hailed from that populous and
important town, and their family tree ran away back beyond the oldest
extant history. The two brothers, while in all other things as like as
two twin-brothers could be, at the same time very early in life began to
exhibit very different talents and tastes and dispositions; till, when we
meet with them in their full manhood, the one is a soldier in the army
and the other a shepherd on the Delectable Mountains. The
soldier-brother is thus described in one of the military histories of his
day: 'A man of conduct and of valour, and a person prudent in matters. A
comely person, moreover, well-spoken in negotiations, and very successful
in undertakings. His colours were the white colours of Mansoul and his
scutcheon was the dead lion and the dead bear.
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