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My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

The Common-place Book of the Mercurius Aulicus, a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense. Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"? A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

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Image from ‘The Works of G. J. Whyte-Melville. Edited by Sir H. Maxwell. [With illustrations by J. B. Partridge, Hugh Thomson, and others.]’, 002454853

Author: MELVILLE, George John Whyte.
Volume: 24
Page: 363
Year: 1898
Place: London
Publisher: W. Thacker & Co.

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