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He succeeded in reaching the cellar
stairway. But he had no sooner set his
foot on the top stair (which was slippery
at the time, owing to some soft soap
having been spilled upon it) than he
slipped, and fell headlong, with his
whole assortment of bottles, to the cellar
floor.

Strange enough, he was not very badly
- hurt;-but the damage done to the con-
tents of the magazine was immense.
Such a smashing of small bottles was
never known before in those parts, and
has never, to my knowledge, been
known since.

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