Temple Bar, Том 31

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Ward and Lock, 1871

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Сторінка 71 - Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of game. If there is a pure and elevated pleasure in this world, it is the roast pheasant and bread sauce — barn door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman, the thirty-nine times articled clerk — the pheasant, the pheasant ! ' Ever yours,
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