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50 i THE LEADER . [ No . 322 , Sat ., May 24 , 1856 .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1856, page 504, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2142/page/24/
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