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| Title | The Slippery Ford, Or, How Tom was Taught |
| Author | Mrs. Charles Montague Clarke |
| Publisher | Religious Tract Society, 1885 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 30 apr. 2007 |
| Length | 207 pages |
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