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For nea.rly an hour the talkaLive man had bored his fellow-passengers in the railway .carriage with, accounts of his (lor Caesar. Caesar could stand up on his hind legs—you should just'see him; Caesar ate hot chestnuts —hot chestnuts, just think of it! Caesar was a champion ratter, too And oh, Caesar was fond of cats.
"ftir," said an old gentleman in the' corner, who had been vainly .tryinjy to snatch forty winks, "suppose you topic Caesar into a shop and bought him a muzzle, and then asked the assistant to piit it on for you and ho'refused to do so, what would you «io V" ' ' ' . "Well," said the talkative one "I'M put it. on myself." . . ' . "Quito so," waa the reply, "and, I W\\ h«« m\l MfW with m« Ant. yi v w^uld UeJc jolly weli with ' it oa.'
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 17
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