Word: duns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...life a dun cloud gathers...
...leafage fusing in one shadow dun...
Chilled by his mantle dun...
...finances each beastly dun has guessed...
...tell you of the low trick played on a dun by my chum last year. My chum had been deluded enough to subscribe to one of those periodical editions of Don Quixote, under the pleasing belief that it would be a fine thing to acquire Cervantes in so cheap a manner. "Just think!" he said. "Only fifty cents to be paid each week. And, really, every fellow should own Don Quixote." Affairs went on smoothly for two or three weeks. The payments were prompt, and each number of the periodical was eagerly devoured. But at about the time mentioned...