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George Cruikshank's Table-book (1845)

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 303

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the side of the Emperor. In this way she has often thrownBlucher, and the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon, hearing of this extraordinary trait ofpatriotism in a horse, went expressly to the Cirque, and having witnessed the fact withhis own imperial eyes, offered Franconi a whole regiment of cavalry in… … Pigs have been taught to spell. A singular anecdote is told of one, that indubitablyproves the force of early habit in animals generally, but in a pig especially. A learnedsow, that was called Bacon, would always spell Vauxhall with a ^V. This was alwaysa matter of wonderment, till it was…

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