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‘"It is a very singular thing,"’ said a tailor's apprentice to his master as the latter was pressing a bobtail coat, ‘"that the less there is of some things the more there is."’ How can that be?" said the tailor. ‘"Why, there's that bobtailed coat; the less you make the tail, the more bob it is."’
The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. September 4, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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