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BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD III.
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common sight, so says the historian, to hear the nightfall and the headache-stick fall at the same time.


THEY SAT ON THE THRONE FOR SOME TIME.

The queen died in 1485, and Richard thought some of marrying again; but it got into the newspapers because he thought of it while a correspondent was going by, who heard it and telegraphed his paper who the lady was and all