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Con Men
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He came up with a plan to trick the townspeople, who by now were so desperately afraid of the world around them that they would believe anything.
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― The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Complete Story
― The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Complete Story
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As for quackery and mountebanks, of which the town was so full, I listened to none of them, and have observed often since, with some wonder, that for two years after the plague I scarcely saw or heard of one of them about town. Some fancied they were all swept away in the infection to a man, and were for calling it a particular mark of God’s vengeance upon them for leading the poor people into the pit of destruction, merely for the lice of a little money they got by them; but I cannot go that le
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― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
