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1media/A1N7A12P3.png2024-12-24T11:12:33-05:00For Those Who Are Bored6A bit of word playplain2025-01-03T19:57:58-05:0010-07-1890X, before returning to Haiti, recently went to England.
On returning to Paris, his wife reproached him for not having written:
"Do not blame me, my friend," X replied; "I meant to write, but I was not able to; as it happened, when we reached Dover, the captain called for them to drop the anchor.
--- *Joke is lost in translation. The word anchor (ancre) sounds the same as the work for ink (encre).
