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Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and ...more

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I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

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It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I...more