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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: The Heidelburg Tun...?
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 12:29:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 16 12:29:12 1984
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[If you were a bug, you'd be dead by now.]

Right, the Heidlberg Tun is a huge barrel.  You'll find an account
of it in Mark Twain's _A Tramp Abroad_, where he conjectures that
it was used to dilute German milk (smaller containers being unable to
hold the requisite amount of water).
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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