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about 1 month ago yarb said:

On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a crippled beggar (or kedger, as the sailors say) holding a painted board before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his leg.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 57

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