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Notes and Queries, Number 226, February 25, 1854

Note 5 — Minor Queries.

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[Matt of the Mint in the Beggar's Opera says, "My poor brother Tom had an accident this time twelve-month; and so clever a made fellow he was, that I could not save him from those flaying rascals the surgeons; and now, poor man, he is among the 'otamies at Surgeons' Hall." The executed culprit noticed by our correspondent, however, seems to have been re-animated at Surgeons' Hall.—Ed.]

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