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John read the letter with his lovely smile. "Your father has a vigorous English style, And what he says is true, upon my word; But what's this war of which I never heard? We didn't fight in 1812."
-"Yes, John, That was the time when you burnt Washington." "We couldn't have, my dear. ." "I mean the city."