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A CAPTAIN in the navy, meeting a friend as he landed at Portsmouth,
boasted that he had left his whole ship's company the happiest fellows
in the world. How so? asked his friend. Why, I have just flogged
seventeen, and they are happy it is over; and all the rest are happy
that they have escaped.
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