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Edward Capern, the poet (born 1819), so called because at one time he was a letter-carrier at Bideford. He died in 1894.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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