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Updated: May 9, 2025

Is it not, my friend, that, in the multitude of your words and ways, you have not found time to renew your acquaintance with these ancient worthies, and so their features have somewhat faded from your memory? but Benlomond came in but yesterday, and because he is a newspaper-topic, him you know; and because at the first blush you running can read that there is a river in Monmouth and also a river in Macedon, and salmons in both, 'tis as like as my fingers to my fingers, and Monmouth was built on the model of Macedon!

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864