Charles Reade
Charles Reade
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A very brief sketch of the dwarf’s court life will suffice to prepare the reader for his own account of this feat. Some months before he went to court his intelligence had budded. He himself dated the change from a certain 8th of June, when, swinging by one hand along with the week’s washing on a tight rope in the drying ground, something went crack inside his head; and lo! intellectual powers unchained.

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