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Excerpt from The Club of Queer Trades
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he Should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world. That I should have come at last upon so singular a body was, I may say Without.
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