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lii most countries 13 is always spoken of as "the taker's dozen,' but in Italy it is called "a cobbler's dozen." There is a tradition in that land -that formerly there was a law compelling cobblers to put 12 nai'ls round the ed°c of a boot-heel, and that when flails were cheap a 13th was driven in the centre foMuck. • ;

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