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<font size=3>At 1/20/2014 12:35 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:<br>
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House...Kryptonite...Oxford...!! Getting...weaker!!! If I<br>
could only --"<br><br>
END OF PT. I !!!!!<br><br>
Next Month: "Fortress of Solitude!"</blockquote><br>
Not bad for keeping us in suspense; I can hear the suspiration (or was
that "aspiration"?). In 1739 the first part of a two-part
article on a newsworthy shipwreck off Nova Scotia (in which the ship
owner's wife was widowed, carried off by Indians, and then rescued by the
French, and was supposed to have had about 1600 pounds sterling in gold,
silver, and jewels that was taken by the Indians) ended with:<br><br>
“The Capt. Dying------ [The Remainder of this Melancholy Relation will be
continued, in our Next]”<br><br>
(The woman carried off and then rescued was actually a piratical
murderess, who was being transported to America for previous
felonies.)<br><br>
Joel</font></body>
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