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A PIOUS KING.
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I see I was up a stump. I had to let on to get choked with a chicken bone, so as to get time to think how to get down again. Then I says:

"I mean he goes to our church regular when he's in Sheffield. That's only in the summer-time, when he comes there to take the sea baths." boy and woman talking across supper table
SUPPER WITH THE HARE-LIP.

"Why, how you talk—Sheffield ain't on the sea."

"Well, who said it was?"

"Why, you did."

"I didn't, nuther."

"You did!”

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