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Mr Perkins
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'Apropos to riding in a coach, Perkins told me that he had [italics] found out the Secret how to read in a Carriage [end italics] and would tell it to me, to whom it might be useful; he put a Piece of Paper he said on the Page he was reading, & so moved it when he came to the End of the Line. - where I suppose he thought the Sense naturally stopt, as it does in an Account Book. - comical enough.'