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Chapter X. A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police invented mousetraps.
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From this reading A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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From this reading societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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From this reading societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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From this reading societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police
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From this reading societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police
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From this reading The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as
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