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Transcription
My room steward in
conversation about the andirons,
the man who told me
that they could see only in
one eye, the other having been
kindled by a rod who was
angered by them on one occasion
when it marks had pecked
a wound in the breast of
a fair maiden + thus
by causing bleeding killed
them.