even the cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in oroginality) rapped out theirs. mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the english crown and people, from a congress of british subjects in america; which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human raca than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the cock-lane brood.

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