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Winter. I always longed particularly to go to Vaux-hall, to see whether the cold Beef thereis cut so thin as it is reported, for I have asly suspicion that few people understandthe art of cutting a slice of cold Beef sowell as I do: nay it would be hard if I didnot know something of the Matter, for it wasa part of my EducationthatI took I always tookby far the mostpains with. Mama always found me herbest Scholar, tho'though when Papa was alive Eloisawas his. Never to be sure were there two moredifferent Dispositions in the World. We bothloved Reading. She preferred Histories, & IReceipts. She loved drawing Pictures, and I

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