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    and instructive pathetic interest !*©^ especi * and all ihe y to incidental town-bred information boys . ; about country-life will be full of novelty i

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    , well-known ; I novels , gives us a brilliant and

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/18/