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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER XI: Some Family Scraps
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As usual, it is only the anger that has stuck in our minds.

Of the outcome of these controversies and the British temperance and restraint which brought about such outcome the popular mind retains no impression.
The boundary of Maine was found to be undefined to the extent of 12,000 square miles.

Both Maine and New Brunswick claimed this, of course.
Maine took her coat off to fight, so did New Brunswick.

Now, we backed Maine, and voted supplies and men to her.

Not so England.


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