"+There's no more valour in that _Goschen_ than in a Wild Duck.".... "A
plague of all Cowards still say I!+"
_Henry the Fourth_, Part I., Act ii, Scenes 2 and 4.]
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Mrs. +Ram+, at this time of year, takes a great interest in the state of
the weather, and studies the daily Meteorological chronicle. She says
that she always reads the reports from Ben Nevis's Observatory. She
hopes that, one of these fine days, this learned astronomer will be made
a Knight. Sir +Benjamin Nevis+ would be, she considers, a very nice
title. "Of course," she adds, "judging by his name, he must be a Jew.
They're such clever people. And, let me see, ain't there a proverb, or
something of that sort, about 'the Jew of Ben Nevis'?"
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