Excerpt from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, Vol. 9: January June, 1813
I hepe you will pardon me, Mr. Spectator, but there is one little story more, which I had forgot, and I wish to relate it, because it is a good one, and has some fun in it.
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