LINEN, n. 'A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.' Calcraft the Hangman. (Ambrose Bierce)

LINEN, n. 'A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.' Calcraft the Hangman.

Ambrose Bierce

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