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Odd European Dinner Tale and a Carpenter’s Axe Legend
Fragmented OCR recounts a dinner with King William I and Napoleon II and a joke about passing salt. It shifts to a legend of a shipyard carpenter who makes a wooden bolt and proves his skill by breaking stone with an axe. The tale blends travel mentions and a moral about clever workmanship.
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William I
Napoleon II
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William
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