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 in contestation, 'Whether that year is not always the last cast-year of the last cast-almanack;—I tell you plainly it was; but from a different reason than you wot of

It was the year next himwhich being the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and twelve, when the duke of Ormond was playing the devil in Flandersthe corporal took it, and set out with it afresh on his expedition to Bohemia.