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Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.
There were notices, of varying dates, posted in prominent places about the cliffs to warn the public not to go near them-unless, indeed, it were to read the notices themselves, which were printed in a very unobtrusive type. Of late, however, this Dogberrian _caveat_ had been supplemented by a statement in the local gazette that the cliffs, owing to the recent rains succeeding prolonged frost, were in so ill a constitution that to approach them at all, even to decipher the warnings not to, was-well, to take your life out of the municipal into your own hands.