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A letter from Rhode Island recalls a debt tale about John Bones and a polite debtor Jones who repaid with vanity. Oberlin College pranks, a boarding house prayer scheme, a clergyman accused of stealing a sermon, and a locomotive tale with Sut the switchman mix in with jokes about coal dust and potato rot.
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