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the gas, and put it out of its misery at once ! 
Brighter prospects seemed before us in the 
spacious room allotted in the magnificent 
building of the great Town Hall. But the 
day turned dark and wet, the dirty old gloom 
crept in, and the dead-grey light had to be 
illuminated by some handsome spikes of that 
CTpT must have been with an intense feeling 
f. p of relief that the Auricula exhibitors 
of the 30th of April turned their backs 
for ever upon the dismal, stuffy old Exhibi¬ 
tion-room of the Ilulme Town Hall, where 
the damaged daylight grew so ghastly pale and 
sickly, that it felt like an act of mercy to light 
