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_13th July, 1872._
The table here is not _recherche_; but twelve months' campaigning have
made me tolerably easy to please.
What would not the poor Parisians have given, during the Siege in 1870,
for some of Mrs. Tribble's obdurate poultry and steaks!
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_19th July, 1872._