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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 26, 1857, page 1246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2223/page/22/