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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 11: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January-June 1897
The whole thing seems to show that they none of them know much about, or at all events are not thoroughly certain about the matter. Let Ous suppose a man born in Ireland, or, better still, instead of supposing I will give an actual case, that of a valiant soldier who served his country faithfully for twenty years - John Leahy, taken from his own account in his Art of Swimming,' 1875. He is a Corker, having been born in the county of Cork, where at the age of seventeen he enlisted in our army (our neatly avoids English!
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