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The London Frost Fair of 1814

Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

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Nine Pins - The Prince of Wales

You've been out on the ice a long time now and you start to feel the cold pinching at your toes and your fingertips. It is time to warm yourself in an enormous striped tent. In here, fires crackle in braziers and benches piled with soft cushions are arranged over the ice. The tent is filled with fairgoers eating spicy gingerbread and drinking warm drinks from copper mugs. You pull open one of its heavy canvas doors and a blast of walls rushes at your face. But you don't plan to watch. Nine pins are tidied into a neat triangle ready for the next round. A man's pink-cheeked face suddenly turns white. Has he

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