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| Title | Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, Volume 2 Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, Harry Hieover |
| Author | Harry Hieover |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 Oct 2007 |
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