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 CHAPTER IV.

is a charming, hospitable place: its name is asociated with so many pleasing recollections, that it never fails to extort another glass from the bottle which, having been gagged, was going to pass the night in the cellaret. But only say " Halifax!" and it is like " Open sesame!"—out flies the cork, and down goes a bumper to the " health of all good lasses!"