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Sept. 5, 1863.]
ONCE A WEEK.
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WAITING FOR THE TIDE.

Ever so many years ago, when the few people who wrote letters were still hardly used to dating their compositions with “18—" instead of “17—,” there lived, at the flourishing seaport town of Filby, in Yorkshire, one Jonathan Gale. Mr. Gale was employed in one of the seven dockyards that Filby then maintained, or that then maintained Filby, and was eminently well-to-do and
VOL. IX.
No. 219.