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A Reason For Being Too Late
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CANNING and another gentleman were looking at a picture of the Deluge:
the ark was in the middle distance; in the fore-sea an elephant was seen
struggling with his fate. I wonder, said the gentleman, that the
elephant did not secure an inside place.--He was too late, my
friend, replied Canning; he was detained packing up his trunk.
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