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Chapter 3. The Spouter Inn

Entering that gable-ended spouter in,

you found yourself in a wide, low,

straggling entry with old-fashing wainscoats,

reminding one of the ballworks of some condemned old craft.

On one side hung a very large oil painting,

so thoroughly besmoked and every way defaced,

that in the unequal cross-lights by which you viewed it,

it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it

and careful inquiry of the neighbors

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