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an hour I should attribute it to the beating, but I should think it extraordinary. I do not know what such a stick as you describe might do: A Man beat with such a stick might be weak or might die, but I should think it strange. If he was ill or of an irritable habit he might die. If the Man died the same afternoon I should attribute the Death to
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