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We have exceeded the cost of the guns for the ladds and the extra $ will go for ammo, and maybe a blind or stand for the boys.
Today we got very generous contributions from Mr. happy Myles and Libertyfirst. 2009
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` Who leades those ladds? 'said the king of Scottes,
Durham Field 1898
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But then he has the caracter of being a very haughty, ill-natured gent., and that he has such a way of distorting his Face (which though he can't help) the gent, think it may affect some young ladds; for these two reasons he is not approved on, the late master Mr. Crompton's huffing the Foeofees being stil in their memory.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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But then he has the caracter of being a very haughty, ill-natured gent., and that he has such a way of distorting his Face (which though he can't help) the gent, think it may affect some young ladds; for these two reasons he is not approved on, the late master Mr. Crompton's huffing the Foeofees being stil in their memory.
Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. James Boswell 1767
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