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"You evidently build on a great amount of faith from the public How do

you induce them to believe--do you write in your own na to put R C, but Grace said

people would think it ht I had

better put the initials of Female Union for Lacemaker's Employment"

"You don't mean that Bessie persuaded you to put that?" exclai up than Rachel had ever seen him

"Yes There is no objection, is there?"

"Oh, Rachel, Rachel, how could we have helped thinking of it?" cried

Grace, nearly in a state of suffocation

Rachel held up her printed appeal, where subscriptions were invited to

the address of F U L E, the Hoh you are not Scottish, you ought to be well read in

Walter Scott"

"I have thought it waste of time to read incorrect pictures of

pseudo-chivalry since I have been grown up," said Rachel "But that has

nothing to do with it"

"Ah, Rachel, if we had been more up in our Scotch, we should have knohat F U L E spells," sighed Grace

A light broke in upon Rachel "I am sure Bessie never could have

recollected it," was her first exclamation "But there," she continued,

too earnest to see or stumble at straws, "never mind It cannot be

helped, and I dare say not one person in ten will be struck by it"

"Stay," said Grace, "let it be Englishwoman's Employment See, I can

very easily alter the L into an E"