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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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He gave a dinner at the 'Star and Garter' that very day.

I promise you there was no Marsally THERE.
"Nex day they were up at 3 1/4.

This put Fred in a rage: they rose to 5, he was in a fewry.

'What an ass I was to sell,' said he, 'when all this money was to be won!' "'And so you WERE an Ass,' said his partiklar friend, Colonel Claw, K.X.R., a director of the line, 'a double-eared Ass.

My dear fellow, the shares will be at 15 next week.


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