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N° 1. endeavouring to cheat you of your christian and surname too. Wishing you, sir, long to live, for our instruction and diversion, and to the defeating of all impostors, I remain,

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REMEMBER Menage tells a story of monsieur Racan, who had appointed a day and hour to meet a certain lady of great wit whom he had never seen, in order to make an acquaintance between them. "Two of Racan's friends, who had heard of the appointment, resolved to play him a trick. The Rh