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1 “What, Peter? Not to see yet?” – asked May 20, 1859, leaving without a hat on the low porch of the inn… a gentleman of about forty, in a dusty coat and checkered
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Returning home, the soldier met a sorceress. So sent him to a hollow where in 3 rooms of 3 chests guarded by terrible dogs, he could collect copper coins, silver and gold, having first