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"I declare I was stuht his old clothes good enough for the weddin', I was speechless

"But I got a worse knock down than that Says she, 'Mr Growther, I will not dispute all the hard things you have said of yourself (you see I had beat her on that line of argerment); I won't dispute all that you say (and I felt a little sot up agin, for I didn't knohat she was a-drivin' at), but,' says she, 'I think you've got some natural feelin's Suppose you had a little son, and while he was out in the street a wicked man should carry hirowin' to be strong and fine-lookin', he should become a puny, deformed little critter Suppose at last you should hear where he was, and that he was longin' to escape from the cruel bands of his harsh master, who kept on a-treatin' of hio and coolly look at hibody, I'd deliver you out of this tyrant's clutches and take you back to be ain; but since you are a poor, weak, deformed little critter, that can never do much, or be much, I'll leave you here to be abused and tormented as before"--is that what you would do, Mr Growther?'

"Well, she spoke it all so earnest and real-like that I got off ot hold of ht up on end, I was that eon that had o for that cuss that stole ive him a hundred'

"'But ould you do with the poor little boy?' she asks At that I began to choke, my feelin's was so stirred up, and moppin' my eyes, I said, 'Poor little chap, all beaten and abused out o' shape! What would I do with hiet all the hard times he'd had' Then says she, 'You would twit the child with bein' weak, puny, and deformed, would you?' I was now hobblin' up and down the rooreat state of excitement, and says I, 'Mrs Arnot, mean a man as I am, I wouldn't treat any human critter so, let alone my own flesh and blood, that had been so abused that it makes my heart ache to think on't'