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The Duke Of Wellington And The Aurist
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A Fixture
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DR. ROGER LONG, the celebrated astronomer, was walking, one dark
evening, with a gentleman in Cambridge, when the latter came to a short
post fixed in the pavement, but which, in the earnestness of
conversation, taking to be a boy standing in the path, he said hastily,
Get out of the way, boy.--That boy, said the doctor, very seriously,
is a post-boy, who never turns out of the way for anybody.
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