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CONE CUT CORNERS:

The Experience of a Conservative Family in Fanatical Times; Including some Account of a Connecticut Village, the People who lived in it, and those who came there from the city.

BY BENAULY.

1 Vol. 12mo., 456 pp. Price $1.25. Elegantly Ill.u.s.trated.

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