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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: tobacco, he has his whole subsistence.
From a modern point of view the Doctor
``looks easy.''
The Book of Wonderful Characters continues:
Platerus speaks of a beggar boy, who
for four farthings would suddenly swallow
many stones which he met with by
chance in any place, though they were big
as walnuts, so filling his belly that by the
collision of them while they were pressed,
the sound was distinctly heard. Father
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