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boiled beef, pickles, home-made butter, and home-made 

 bread, flanked by some very fine bitter beer. Then is the 

 time to eat, drink, and be merry ; and those viands (for I 

 count the beer as a viand), after a turn on the downs with 

 an agreeable and intelligent expert in racing, are worth 

 a king's ransom. 



