The String of Pearls (1850), p. 553

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"He means Poison."
"Oh, is that it; then why don't he say Poison? It's very absurd for anybody to say Pison, when they mean Poison all the while."
"It's all the same," said the groom. "Pison is my way, and the t'other is yourn, that's all!"

THE TWO MURDERERS, TODD AND LUPIN, ESCAPING FROM THE CELL AT NEWGATE.{Figure}

"What became of the hat?" asked the junior counsel for the prosecution. "I don't know. When I found the dog, in a wery bad state indeed, it was gone."
"Now, John Figgs," said Todd's counsel, could you identify that hat again among five hundred hats like it?"
"Five hundred?"

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