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which I first recollect hearing from the lips of a saintly 

 old Curd, I thought quite picturesque : " Sac-d- 

 papier ; " the erudite Mr. Laredon Larchey connects it 

 with the period, when lawyers, in France, carried their 

 briefs to court, in bags. It might be worth while to 

 trace the origin of the most fashionable expletives in 

 English Canada and beyond the border. 



