seventy-two-year-old

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However, when his father had died at the ripe age of ninety-three died in the harness, even while gingerly and thriftily knuckling along a weight into the eighth notch of the bar of the scoop scales Ivory had come back as sole heir to store, stock and stand, a seventy-two-year-old black sheep bringing a most amazing tail behind him no less than a band chariot, a half dozen animal cages, a tent loaded on a great cart, and various impedimenta of "Buck's Leviathan Circus and Menagerie."

Various - Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905