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The History of John Bull

CHAPTER XV
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The sequel of the meeting at the "Salutation."*.
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* At the Congress of Utrecht.
Where I think I left John Bull, sitting between Nic.

Frog and Lewis Baboon, with his arms akimbo, in great concern to keep Lewis and Nic.
asunder.

As watchful as he was, Nic.

found the means now and then to steal a whisper, and by a cleanly conveyance under the table to slip a short note into Lewis's hand, which Lewis as slyly put into John's pocket, with a pinch or a jog to warn him what he was about.


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