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Dont be trying to deprecate the value of the lot, Mr. Moss, Mr. Hammerdown said; let the company examine it as a work of artthe attitude of the gallant animal quite according to natur; the gentleman in a nankeen-jacket, his gun in his hand, is going to the chase; in the distance a banyhann-tree and a pagody, most likely resemblances of some interesting spot in our famous Eastern possessions.
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