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A man would have but few spectators, if he offered to show for threepence how he could thrust a red-hot iron into a barrel of gunpowder, and it should not take fire.

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CONTENTS

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The Battle of the Books	9
A Meditation upon a Broomstick	51
Predictions for the Year 1708	53
Accomplishment of the First Prediction	67
Baucis and Philemon	71
The Logicians Refuted	78
The Puppet Show	80
Cadenus and Vanessa	83
Stella's Birthdays	115
To Stella visiting me in my Sickness	127
Prayers on the Death of Stella	132
The Beasts' Confession	136
On the Inconvenience of Abolishing Christianity	145
Hints towards an Essay on Conversation	165
Thoughts on Various Subjects	178

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