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Meantime, a veteran in the corner is prosing about Dettingen and Fontenoy, and relates camp- traditions of Marlborough's battles, till his pipe, having been roguishly charged with gunpowder, makes a terrible explosion under his nose.

From Old Ticonderoga, a Picture of the Past (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel