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Economic Society of Bern, the following short and somewhat clumsily expressed notice: -- "Friedly Mynth of Bossi (Mind of Pizy), of the bailliwick of Aubonne, resident in Worblaufen, very weak, incapable of hard work, full of talent for drawing, a strange creature, full of artist-caprices, along with a certain roguishness: drawing is his whole employment: a year and a half here: ten years old."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various
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Isn't chasing after Frankenstein's monster a bit out of Alamo Joe's bailliwick?
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