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The air being charged with electricity, all wives of well-regulated
minds will insist on their husbands promising not to ride in any omnibus
unprovided with a lightning conductor.
The great demand for sherry-cobblers will completely exhaust the
metropolitan supply of straw. Livery-stable keepers will be driven to
singular expedients for the nocturnal accommodation of their lodgers.
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The demand for whitebait will be unusually brisk at Greenwich.