re for all that passes,
Horses, mares, mules, and asses."

C.J.T.

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CANALS.

According to a calculation recently made, there are 103 canals in Great
Britain--extending 2,682 miles, and formed at an expense of thirty
millions sterling.

C.J.T.

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"Do you know what made my voice so melodious?" said a celebrated vocal
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other. "Why, then, I'll tell you: when I was about fifteen, I swallowed,
by accident, some train oil." "I don't think," rejoined Bannister, "it
would have done you any harm if, at the same time, you had swallowed a
dancing-master!"

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