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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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Fatle suckmstances for pore Frederick Timmins.
The Railway Hoperations began.
"For some time, immerst in lor and love, in the hardent hoccupations of his cheembers, or the sweet sosiaty of his Hemily, Frederick took no note of railroads.

He did not reckonize the jigantic revalution which with hiron strides was a walkin over the country.

But they began to be talked of even in HIS quiat haunts.

Heven in the Hoxford and Cambridge Clubb, fellers were a speculatin.

Tom Thumper (of Brasen Nose) cleared four thousand lb.; Bob Bullock (of Hexeter), who had lost all his proppaty gambling, had set himself up again; and Jack Deuceace, who had won it, had won a small istate besides by lucky specklations in the Share Markit.
"HEVERY BODY WON.


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