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Reader, Iwe had: he and I, the

parson and clerk, were alone present When we got back from church,

I went into the kitchen of the

the dinner and John cleaning the knives, and I said "Mary, I have been " The

housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic

order of people, to whom one may at any time safely co the danger of having

one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently

stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment Mary did look up, and she

did stare ata pair of

chickens roasting at the fire, did for so

suspended in air; and for the same space of ti process: but Mary, bending again over

the roast, said only "Have you, Miss? Well, for sure!"

A short tio out with the one to church to be wed;" and she basted