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Wanted to Know.

(BY THE BARON.) Is the “ ship of State” moored by a Ministerial cabal ? Is it peculation to “take a walk ?" If you tread on a cat’s tail, is it correct grammar to say that it produces harm on he (harmony) ? Would a fire in a bookseller’s produce “illumined copies?” < What does a “ speaking likeness” say? Isa “figure of speech” the same as a “ form of words ?” Does a book always have plates in its first edishon ? If a man goes to Skye, does he “go to the dogs ?” Does every Dey have his dog, just as every dog has his day ? Who reaps the grain of a ship’s log ? Who trod in the steppes of Kirgia ? Are stairs weeping when they are in tiers ? Are the tares of the field higher than the rents of a bouse X"

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Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 3 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Wanted to Know. Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 3 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Wanted to Know. Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 3 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)