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"ref": "2012 July 22, Frank Rich, “Mayberry R.I.P.”, in New York",
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"text": "Listen, treacle, this is the last time I'll warn you!"
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"ref": "1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183",
"text": "CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.",
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