Twelve years has the mountain been in labour, and, as Miss Squeers remarked, with ungrammatical emphasis, “this is

THE HEND.”

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G. E. WATERS, 97, WESTBOURNE GROVE, LONDON.


Transcriber’s Note:

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

The printer was inconsistent in using terminal punctuation after a player’s initial. This was retained as printed.

Page 60, repeated word “with” removed from text (with considerable trepidation)

The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.