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Along the walls of the smoking-room, above a leather dado, were prints of horsemen in night-shirts and nightcaps, or horsemen in red coats and top-hats, with words underneath such as:
"Yeoicks' says Thruster; 'Yeoicks' says Dick. 'My word! these d -- -d Quornites shall now see the trick! '.