The Te Chou Arsenal has recently been visited by a Deputy, or rather five of them, and ramour had it that the Manager had been degraded, refuced to the ranks, and everlastingly ruined. Why? Because his cartridges would not go off, or rather because they did go off at the back end, killing (or perhaps wounding) all and singular that fired them. Ai. yah And how many of the bad ones were there? Oh, thousands, many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, (or in an awed whisper) even millions Yet when the smoke has blown away it turns out to be nothing of importance (or else, which is not impossible) the Deputies have been "got at." If the innocent reader of these lines ks will ever know which, why, he error.
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