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they know their drivers and keepers; and that they will play
pranks upon a stranger. It is my intention, on a future oc-
casion, to bring together examples both of the expressions
in common use among mechanicians, and of any extraor-
dinary exhibitions of mechanical sagacity and eccentricity
that I can meet with—not as believing in the Erewhonian
Professor’s theory, but from the interest of the subject.
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