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In the appendix to Croker's Boswell's Johnson one finds this anecdote:
_Cato's Soliloquy_. -One day Mrs. Gastrel set a little girl to repeat to him (Dr. Samuel Johnson) Cato's Soliloquy, which she went through very correctly. The Doctor, after a pause, asked the child: