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| | Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll |
 | | You will thus generally secure a logical victory: a practical victory is not to be hoped for, since she can always fall back upon the crushing remark, "That has nothing to do with it!"- a move for which Man has not yet discovered any satisfactory answer. |
 | | Now let us return to BALBUS.) Here is my "particular negative", on which to test his rule: Suppose the two recorded luncheons to have been "2 buns, one queen-cake, 2 sausage-rolls, and a bottle of Zoedone: total, one-and-ninepence", and "one bun, 2 queen-cakes, a sausage-roll, and a bottle of Zoedone: total, one-and-fourpence". |
 | | And suppose Clara's unknown luncheon to have been "3 buns, one queen-cake, one sausage-roll, and 2 bottles of Zoedone": while the two little sisters had been indulging in "8 buns, 4 queen-cakes, 2 sausage-rolls, and 6 bottles of Zoedone". |
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