IMPUDENT AND ADROIT THIEVES 
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"Of course I did — who could have doubted or resisted the order* 
of a Judge P' 
" Watch — and turkey— both gone ! pray, what the devil, madam, are 
we to do for a dinner ?" 
But the lady had taken care of her guests, notwithstanding her simpli- 
city, and the party enjoyed both the joke and their viands. 
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