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By GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
The Burr Printing House
and Steam Type-setting Office,
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NEW YORK.
TO TEN FRIENDS AT DINNER,
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April 21, 1879;
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