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She is seated in perfect unconsciousness on an inverted pine box -- empty, I trust -- which bears the startling announcement, in legible lettering on its side, that it holds "500 smokeless nitro-powder cartridges."
A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892
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