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Excerpt from Stories of the Study, Vol. 3 of 1
The other tales were written with no particular object, unless in The Green wich Pensioner, the introduction of a few local expressions can be accounted as such.
The descriptive tale of The Deluge is one Ofa series of the great epochal events in the history of the world. Mr. Martin undertook to illustrate them, but few more remarkable instances of complete failure can be adduced from the records of literature.
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