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THOMAS CHANDLER, (hal'e-bur-tn,) a popular English author, B. in Nova Scotia, 1802, of which prov. bre became judge in 1841. His most esteemed work, and one that has exhausted many editions, is The Clockmaker, or the Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville, a humorous impersonation of the Yankee type of the American character. [s. 435]