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THE PROVINCIAL AMERICAN By MEREDITH NICHOLSON
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A DOCTOR'S TABLE-TALK By JAMES G. MUMFORD
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Transcriber's Note
Some inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document has been preserved.
Typographical errors corrected in the text:
Page 54 though changed to thought
Page 237 sweatmeat changed to sweetmeat
Page 329 our changed to out
Page 360 fradulent changed to fraudulent