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Updated: May 27, 2025

Don't talk to me of Peter Stuyvesant's walking puff puff puff puff." Here the redoubtable Ramm contracted his brow, clasped up his mouth, till it wrinkled at each corner, and redoubled his smoking with such vehemence, that the cloudly volumes soon wreathed round his head, as the smoke envelopes the awful summit of Mount Etna. A general silence followed the sudden rebuke of this very rich man.

Washington Irving - Tales of a Traveller