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A man describes his birth and upbringing through the adventures of his family.

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⸻“So hating, I say, to make mysteries of nothing ”⁠⸺⁠I entrusted it with the postboy, as soon as ever I got off the stones; he gave a crack with his whip to balance the compliment; and with the thill-horse trotting, and a sort of an up and a down of the other, we danced it along to Ailly au clochers , famed in days of yore for the finest chimes in the world; but we danced through it without music⁠—the chimes being greatly out of order⁠—(as in truth they were through all France ).

And so making all possible speed, from

Ailly au clochers , I got to Hixcourt , from Hixcourt , I got to Pequignay , and from Pequignay , I got to Amiens , concerning which town I have nothing to inform you, but what I have informed you once before⁠⸺⁠and that was⁠—that Janatone went there to school.

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