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I dreaded a certain dip in the road -- a sort of open drain known in France as a _canivet_ -- but fortunately I had practised crossing it when out one day trying a Napier, and we manoeuvred it pretty fairly.
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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