Says a local bookseller commenting on the poorness of trade:—
"During the first few weeks of this so-called war no one could sit down and read; they didn't feel like read-drunk, which most of them did." ing; they felt rather, like getting So true is this that there were occasions when we couldn't hear the bombardments because of the hiccupping.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.