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Island of Yum Christmas Tale and Talleyrand Cook
The island tale comic about Christmas on the Island of Yum where children lack stockings and chimneys, Santa struggles with palm trees and coconuts, and a poet imagines teaching chimneys and stockings. Then a New York Press excerpt recounts Talleyrand disguising as a ship’s cook to avoid the Tower of London after a London order to quit.
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New York Globe
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Talleyrand
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