"Lady, a word--but oh, beware!
And prithee do not slight it--
If you will have your back so bare,
Someone is sure to bite it."
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"An official of the Coal Controller's Department said that
everything possible would be done to relieve the situation.
'No stone will be left unturned,' he said, 'to ease the
position.'"--_Daily Paper_.
This accounts, no doubt, for the stuff in our last half-hundredweight.
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