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VOL. GO.
Shoeing the Broncho.
Oue who has traveled in certain sec
tions of Texas, Mexico, and in mining
localities of the Rocky and Sierra Ne
vada mountains, does not need to have
the broucho mule described to him. A
thousand accounts have been written
of his peculiar virtues as a saddle ani
mal. Language has been stained in
description of his "bucking" propensi
ties and the height and frequency of
the ascents into ether's space of the
uninitiated who unluckily ventures on
the back of the broncho. Nooneac
quainted with his family ever, in his
wildest imagtaiugs, pictured the bron
cho as being brought east of the cow
boy reservations. Sitting Hull might
be civilized into a dime raust-uiu In
dian exhibit; "Buffalo Bill" and "Tex
as Jack" were admitted not. dangerous
if showing iu a fifty-acre open field
theatre,and the buffalo and cayote wolf
have been taken Into Eastern zoological
gardens. Hut the broucho to "buck"
his way into city life I Never.
And yet that same has the bioncho
done. The street railroad companies
of St. Louis, with a temerity worthy of
cowboys,having harnessed him to their
cars—in fact, one hundred of them.
The cobble stones of the street being
rougher than the sod of his native
heath, the animal needs must te 9hod,
and a reporter of thi "Globe Demo
crat" describes the incident of that un
dertaking. After giving a pen portrait
of the broncho, the reporter proceeds
lo say that there are some remarkably
strong objections to him, one of the
most important of these berng his re
fusal to make friends with those who
ought to be nearest and dearest to him.
The men working around the car
stables he seems to absolutely detest,
and the drivers of cars he has no use
for. Io a short time after getting him
into harness he will learn to stop when
a car bell is rung, but he starts again
only at his own sweet pleasure, aud he
is just as liable to break away into his
little tick-tack trot while a fat woman
is getting off at the bac% of the car as
he is to stay at the crossing and refuse
to budge for a whale hour. This is his
quality of stubbornness, and it is men •
tioned in connection with his selfish
and unfriendly nature merely as oue of
its embellishing features. He never al
lows himself to lose caste, and will not
mingle with anybody but Texas mules,
no matter what the rewards or induce
ments are that are offered him. He is
never curried, because he won't allow
anybody to approach near enough to
do the currying, and the only attentiou
hew gets besides his rations is a rubbing
off ol his back, which is accomplisned
with a long-handled brush, such as
they use in washing windows.
He will kick just for amusement,and
never waits for any provocation. And
when he does kick he sends both hind
legs quivering in the air like the strik
ing hammer of the small gong bell
which you hear when a friend rings
you up for the telephone. He can give
more kicks in rapid succession than a
lightning calculator can count, and he
is such an adept in the business that he
can follow a man a mile, and catch up
with him, wheel suddenly and plant a
succession of kicks between the buttons
ou his coat tails, before the man can
gather his thoughts sufficiently to tell
his own name.
The car companies had tried to shoe
the mules at their own shops, but tbey
found it impossible to shoe more than
two of them a day. The mules kicked
too hard for their street corporation's
farriers ; they bit too promiscuously ;
tbey wouldn't stand still, and when
knocked down, wouldn't stay down,
even though a ton weight was placed
on top of them. One ot the mules con
tinued his recalcitrant giddiness until
be kicked his own leg off,and the other
broke his own neck with a kick. Then
the board of directors held a meeting
and offered the work to Ed. Butler.
Ed. Butler took the job at $2 per
mule, and the directors chuckled glee
fully as they signed the contract.
When the mules were driven into the
rear of Butler's shop the next morning
the fun began. The force selected one
of the meekest looking of the mules for
their first victim. The excitement
started when an attempt was made to
throw a rope around this mule. He
resisted every effort to coax him, and
finally succumbed on'y to strategy ; he
was lassoed and dragged to the bar
.where horses And mules are tied while
being shod. Now this mule, just like
the 49 others which were regarding his
treatment from afar, have been accus
tomed to going barefooted in Texas,
and as the cactus didn't hurt his feet
any, he thought the streets of St. Louis
couldn't do him any damage. Instinct
seemed to prompt him to acknowledge
of the fact that he was going to be torn
from his barefootedness, and he made
a preliminary kick against putting on
the iron slippers. He kicked with all
four feet at once,and the men scattered
hurridly to every corner of the shop.
MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 18., 188 G.
After a moment or two they c intlously
returned to the attacK, and between
jerky, spismodic Kicks, got a ropo a
round three of the mule's legs, ran the
ropj over the neck string, and made it
fast t< the crowbar in front. Then
one man got the nose twister and put
it on the mule, and another man took
the little fellow by the tail. A third
man took the mule's united leg and be
gan the lbst part of the shoeing act.
lie had not got very far before the
mule interposed a vigorous objection ;
it came in the shape of a wild, tremul
ous and thrilling all around kick that
tore the rope from its fastenings and
left the mule standing there free and
unfettered. The man who had hold of
the animal's leg grabbed up his tool
box bun idly and hastened to join the
other fugitives. He was somewhat
slow, and the mule saw him. lie not
only ssw him,he followed him and took
aftei him as hard as he could, hiving at
the Hying end of his apron and giving
au occasionable nibble at his hip pock
et. Everybody in the shop cheered ex
cept the man who was running. Near
the front door the mule thought he was
close enough for operations, so he
wheeled quickly and let both feet ily
into the small of the blacksmith's back.
The smith yelled and weut on, but the
mule stopped, wheeled around again,
and let his lips break into a wide smile,
while his ears stood up in triumph and
the other occupants of the shop roared.
It took more than an hour to shoe that
mule. In the meantime work was be
gun on other mules, and when three or
four were in the hands of the furriers
at a time the fun was tremendous.
Ropes seemed powerless to bold
them. Every five minutes one was
loose chasing somebody around the
shop and always overtaking them in
the manner in which the first mule o
vertook his man, and dealing a double
kick at the basement of the party's
pantaloons. The mule never made a
mistake in selecting fits man w Hi
ways chooses out the person who was
doing the shoeing, and often reached
around and took a mouthful of the
smith's shiit or a turf of his hair.
A crowd gathered at the blacksmith
shop door early in the morning, and
there was an audience there all day
long that would hardly fit in the Stand
ard Theatre. It was late at night
when the show was over, and then the
men were all broken up. Ech one of
the 50 mules had d6alt the eleven men
about fifty kicks apiece, and, though
their kick was not h.ird, it was disa
greeable. Before noon the men learn
ed that the mules could not do much
harm with their tiny heels and short
legs, and so to satisfy the rectlcitrant
little brutes after they broke the ropes
would stop after running a short dis
tance and turu tho backs of their
trousers for the mule to kick at. A few
kicks made the brute happy and tract
able for awhile, and be was led back to
the post and got a new installment of
shoe'iig. Oue man named Vaughn,
who is an athlete and ex circus man,
let a mule chase him a bit aud then
waited for the little fellow to kick ;
when be did so, Vaughn caught him
by the heels aad turned him over on
his back as easily as if be bad been a
poodle dog. At night, when tho work
was at an end, Ed. Butler, Jr., had 18
kicks to his credit, and the other men
were equally well up in their records.
Nobody was badly hurt, but the men
were so worn out with exercise and
their lungs were so sore from laughter
that tbey couldn't do any work for
several days, and Ed. Butler says that
from this out his price for shoeing a
Texas mule is $5.
Jock was all Right.
A canny Lowland farmer, of a miser
ly disposition, went to a fair to hire a
farm seryant; and, peering about him,
be obseryed a tall, well-grown lad, with
a vacant expression of countenance,
iiim be accosted, and found that
"Jock," as he called himself, was an
"innocent" —halt wilted. The farmer,
thinking that this was a good opportu
nity for picking up a strong fellow,who
would take low wages and not quarrel
with the yery plain fare of his kitchen,
questioned him, and, finding that he
was used to farm work, engaged him.
Then, remembering that he knew noth
ing of the youth's character, he added :
"But I maun hae your character, ye
ken, Jock. I engage no man without a
character. Can ye bring me nne frae
yer last maister ?" "Ou, ay."returned
Jock ; ai d it was agreed that he was to
bring the required document to the
Sun Inn, where the farmer intended to
dine at one o'clock. At one o'clock,
punctually, Jock arrived at the Sun,
and with some difficulty made his way
into the room where the farmers' or
dinary was being held. "Wheel, ma
laud, have you got your character V"
asked the farmer. "Na! but I've
got yours ; and I'm no comin' I''
cried Jock, as he bolted from the room,
amid the roars of the assembled JJcom
pany.
A PAPER FOR THE MOME CIRCLE
THE LITTLE SOHOOLMA AM
A STORY OF PLUCK AND ADVKNUUKR.
'Spekin ? of tho rural regions,' s.ml
an old chap at the end of a bar. who
had trouble iu raising a glass of beer lo
his mouth with his right arm, 'I might
be indooced to relate a little adventure
which happened to me in Ljiany last
summer :
4 Well, I bad been hangup around
Indiannapolis for several weeks, and
finally the Police Judge advised me to
leave town. 1 £never argv with a Po
lice Judge. When they come right
down to fatherly advice I accept it and
[ git. I left the town inside of two
hours, and it didn't take mo over three
hours to reach a mile post ten miles
away. About 4 o'clock in the after
noon, as I was rest in' beside the high
way, a schoolma'am passed. She was
a clipper leelle body, weighin' about
ninety pounds, and white-faced, and
when I sort o' riz up to ax her if she
didn't have a bit to eat in her basket,
site uttered a womanish velp and start
ed off on a dead run. I didn't have on
my swaller tail coat and standin collar
on that day, and I guess she took me
fur a tramp.
'Now, gents, when a feller is ragged,
hungry, and out o' rhino, what does he
do ? tie makes a break, in course. 1
walks about fur about a mile,and when
I comes to a farm house with a look of
oomfort about it I stops in and asks if
a poor man who has lost his hull fami
ly in the great Chicago (i r e can git a
bite to eat,to brace him up as he journ
eys toward the setlin' sun. The moth
erly old soui of a farmer's wife would
have set out a square meal fur me, but
that little schoolma'am was there to
prevent. I heard 'em whisperin' to
gether iu the next room, and by aud by
the old lady came back aud give me the
bounce. A tramp as lias belonged to
the prufesh fur fifteen years hadn't
orter fire up over sich a trifle as that.
Lul. ii. Lit mu like bl'iw LWoW ll tt*
belt, and I determined on revenge.
'I wont into the orchard and stole
some apples, and than laid around to
watch. 1 found out afoie dark that
the farmer was an old man, and that
there was only three of 'em in the
house. Iong 'null 'foie the lights
were out I had arranged with myself
to break in. There was a chance of
plunder, and I intended to scare that
little schoo'ma'am out of a year's
growth. I don't say as I would hev
laid hands on her, hut that very thing
might have happened, you know.
'Well, about half an hour afore mid
night I begins operations by creepin '
up to the back door. It was shut, but
not locked, and I crept in, struck a
light, and fou :d my way to the pantry.
There was cold meat, pumpkin pie,and
Dread and butter, and it took me a
good half hour to till up. I might hev
gone out then, but 1 wanted suthin'
else. There was nobody sleepin down
stairs, and after pocketin' a watch I
crept up stairs into the old folks' bed
room. They was sleepin' as sound as
you please, and the moon shiuin' in
furnished all the light needed. I went
through a bureau and got a wallet, and
was svarchin' the old man's pants,
when I heard a step at the door and a
voice cried out : 'Surrender or I'll
shoot !'
'lt was that leetle schoolma'am. Siie
stood in the door in her night dress, a
revolver pointed full at me, and I could
see her eyes blaze. I made a rush to
seize her, when 'crack ! crack !' went
the revolver, and one bullet struck me
in the right sholdier and another in t! e
side. I went down as if shot through
the head, and up jumps the old man
and piles on to me like a ton of brick.
The little schoolma'am went down
stair 3 after a rope, and then helped tie
me hand and foot. Moro'n that, sire
kept guard ever me while the old man
rode off for an olfi jer, and every time
I fetched a groan she had that revolver
ready to shoot.
'ln conclusi in, gents, permit me to
remark that the Court give me live
years fur that little affiir, while the
plucky leetle schoolma'am received a
public purse of S2O ). Sometimes I've
felt as if it was my dooty to hunt her
up and marry her.'
Wanted an Emblem.
Uncle Abraham, over on Cathan St.,
was speaking to an acquaintance the
other day about putting an emblem o
ver the door of his store.
"1M put a bee-hive," suggested the
man."
"Vot does pee-liife shtand for ?"
'•For industry."
' Oil, dot vnas all nonsense. Dot
doan't show people dot I sell a sl4 suit
for SB."
"I know, but the bee is a worker."
"Yes, but dot doan't do. Every
body vlias a worker. Industry vlias all
right, but if somebody comes back mit
a pair of pants dot shrink oop eighteen
inches, dot pee-iiife doan' oxplain dot
d is vlias a singular climate on pants."
How to Run a Universe
Why Somo Things Should not bo sa
Woil as Othars.
Mr. Burdctte remarks : 41 My son,
t here are just two things in this world
that 1 don't know about, and you have
just keri me about one of them. I
don't know why there is trouble and
sorrow and toil and poverty and sick
ness and death in this beautiful world.
I used to know when I was much
younger, but 1 Hud that as I grow old
er 1 don't know a great deal more than
I used to know. I don't know why
the best people seem to have all the
suffering and the great sinuers have all
the fun. I don't know why innocent
men sutler for the wickedness of guilty
men. 1 don't know why the man who
cast the faulty column in Pemberton
Mills wasn't crushed when the mills
want down. I can't see why my neck
should be broken in a railway accident
because a train dispatcher sends out a
wrong order or a signal man gi>es to
sleep. I don't see why my neighbor
should be cursed with ill health and
suffering just because his grandfather
was a rollicking, hard drinking old
profligate. I don't see why I should
have neuralgia just when I want to
feel at ny best. I don't know the
reason why some people starve while
worse people feast. Well, you say,
wouldn't it be pleas inter if all these
crooked things were straightened out V
Yes, oh. yes! And wouldn't I run
things a little better if I had the run
ning of them? Ye— e hold on a min
ute—ye—l don't] know, really, that I
want to try. There are several things
to consider, when you sit down to run
a universe. True, if I managed things
I could make several improvements at
once. I would never again have the
neuralgia, for one thing ; my boots
would not run oyer heels like]an
italic d\ my pantaloons would not woik
up. nor bag at the knees, and my col
lars would not climb ttie back of my
neck, and my mustache wouldn't keep
waxed like a bristle at one end and out
like a satin ribon at the other, and—
but there are some things to look after.
The little matter of day and night I
think 1 might manage for a week, may
be, but there would be an eclipse to
look after, with occasional rain, some
snow, a late spring or an early autumn
or a capricious harvest time to manage;
there are certain movements of the sun
and other planets that have rather deli
cate relations with the earth—come to
think of it, my boy. I have never yet
been able to control my own personal
neuralgia. Now, you are very kind,
but 1 will most respectfully decline the
appointment. I find on looking into
the varied and trying duties onnected
with the otlice that my bodily and men
tal strength would not stand the great
tax that would be laid upon them.
While I am in the heartiest accord
with the Administration, and wish to
give it, and to the extent of my poor a
bility do give it my most earnest sup
port and encouragement, yet I much
prefer to do this in my capacity as a
private citizen."
Stories of Governor Seymour.
The Utica Observer says .- Though
possessed of a grave turn of mind, the
late Gov. Horatio Seymour had at
times a keen sense of humor, and said
many droll things. Ilis allusion to
Grant at the meeting of the Army of
the Cumberland, in Utica, when he
declared that he was a better soldier
than his old antagonist, because in
1808 he (Grant) had run farther and
faster, was incomparably happy.
Some years ago an incident occurred
which at once illustrated Seymour's
goodness of heart and his sense of the
hnmerous. Driving along the Deer
field road oneday he came upon a farm
er in distress. The latter's wagon
had broken down under a heavy pile
of wood, his harness was out of keltcr
and his position was one of abject
misery. He had in vain appealed to
passers-by to help him. But Sey
mour was a friend in need. He help
ed the fanner to repair his wagon and
reload the wood thereupon and loaned
the farmer a part of his own harness.
The Governor then went his way.
Afterwards, when the farmer was tell
ing his story, he startled his hearers
by saying ; "I never felt so mean
in my life. The wood was stolen
from the Governor 's wood pile. The
joke of it all was that during the
whole transaction Governor Seymour
knew that the wood was his own, but
after giving his side of tfce story, with
a merry twinkle in his eye, he was
wont to add : "The poor fellow need
ed the wood more than I did." It is
unnecessary to say that Governor Sey
mour's wood-pile was never again dis
turbed by that particular neighbor.
Terms, SIOO per Year, in Advance.
A Pretty Vanderbilt Story
In a Fourth avenue horse-car going
up town one day a plainly dressed wo
man was riding, accompanied by a
bright-eyed child just old enough to be
asking a good many questions. The
pert young miss of 3or 4 years was in
tent on being on familiar terms with
everybody within reach, and one of the
passengers within reach was Mr. Van.
derbilt. lie had a sma'l package in his
hands, and the child insisted oil
iug him of it. The mother though
wholly unaware of her se.itmite's iden
tity, did her utmost to protect him
from the young mischief-maker's dep
redations, but her efforts were futile.
And Mr. Vanderbilt, as the car lolled
on, seemed really to have got to enjoy
ing the wee bit of a thing's (ilirtatiou.
She went through his'oyercoat pockets,
clambered over bis knees, and couldn't
have been a wliit more familiar had she
been of the house of Vanderbilt itself.
At the T'lirty-second street stables
there was a change of conductors, and
a bearded young fellow came upon the
rear platform, rang cho signal hell, and
started the car onward through the
tunnel.
"Papa, papa !" shouted the little one
excitedly and off from the knee of the
millionaire owner of the railroad she
clambered to hold out her arm? toward
that bearded young fellow,the new con
ductor. The conductor recognized his
distinguished passenger, and naturally
lie was amazed —his own child in the
magnate's arras. He hastened "to cor
rect things, and, with what was not an
unnatutal earnestness, apologized for
the baby's rudeness.
"Tut, tut I" interrupted Mr. Vander
bilt "I've enjoyed my ride with her.
Young man, I wish she were mj own.
She must he taken good care of." And
then, as the car turned out of the tun
nel to the Grand Central Station, he
patted the little one allectiouately upon
the head, and said go;>d-by. Within a
month that street-car conductor was
holding a responsible position upon one
of the big Vanderbilt railroads, a post
that he holds to this day. That very
night Mr. Vanderbilt had the young
man's antecedents looked up, and find
ing his recoid clean, and .assured that
he was a man ot energy and capacity ,
he made place for him at once.
Why Gan. Hancock Died Poor.
A New York letter says : Surprise
is expressed that Gen. Hancock did
not leave a larger estate behind him,
but he was generous to a fault, and he
had manv calls upon his charity. It
was the heavy cross of his life that
his twin brother, for thirty years re
sident of a distant Western city, had
disappointed his expectations, lost his
ambition and sunk into a living death
His brother was a lawyer, one of the
most brilliant in the Northwest, clear
ing from $15,000 to 20.000 a year by
his practice when he fell a victim to
his love for good company and good
cheer. He went down from his high
position like a rocket, and for the last
fifteeen years has been entirely sup
ported by his brother, the General.
There is a touching little bit of ro
mance connected with this sad story.
The lawyer was in his prime, a mag
nificent-looking man, and became en
gaged to the beautiful daughter of a
lady in whose house he boarded.
The engagement began twenty years
ago. But the lady saw danger a
head, and she refused to marry her ar
dent and handsome wooer until he
would for-swear the flowing bowl and
show himself a thoroughly reformed
man. He still lives in the same house
and the lady is there, too, and still
unwedded. She is true to her love,
but is equally true to her promise, and
while she tenderly cares for The man
she loves ana mourns, she knows that
her life is wrecked, and that there is
no hope now ou this side of the grave.
The world is full of such unnoticed
heroines.
A recent traveller in Spain tells how
the Children in Germany play at bull
lighting. One boy, holding a pair of
wooden horns on his head, represents
the bull. Other boys, mounted on
each other's backs, were picadors,while
others again, with their jackets in their
hands, were supposed to be maradors
and chulos. The bull would stamp his
feet and roar, then make a rush at one
of tne chulos, whose jacket was'thrown
up by the wooden horns, but whose
body was never touched. Then the
bull would charge one of the picadors,
whereupon the boy playing horse would
throw himself to the ground, and allow
himself to be properly gored.
The woman who made a pound of
butter out of the cream of a joke, and
cheese from the milk of human kind
ness, has since washed the close of a
year aud hung them out to dry on the
line storm.
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DR. TALMAGE ON DRESS.
(Extract from-Sorraon, Sunday. Fob. 14th.)
Show tne the fashion plates of any
age between this and the time of Louis
XVI of France, and Ilenry VIII. of
England, and I will tell you the type of
morals or immorals ot that age or that
year. No exception lo it. Modest ap
parel means a righteous people. Im
modest apparel always means a contam
inated and depraved society. It is not
only such boldness that is to be repre
hended, but extravagance of costume.
This latter is the causa of fraud unlim*
itable and ghastly. It was an effort to
support too expensive establishments
that sent prominent business men to
the watering of stocks, and life insur
ance presidents to )>erjured statements
about their assets and some of them to
the penitentiary, and lias completely
upset our American finances. But
why should I go to these famous default
ings to show what men will do in order
to keep up great home style and expen
sive wardrobe, when you and I know
scores of men who are put to their wit's
end and are lushed January to Decem
ber in the attempt ? Our Washington
politicians may theorize until the
ration of their terms of ollice as to the
best way of improving our monetary
condition in this country. It will be of
no use, and things will be no belter uu
til we learn to put on our heads and
backs and feet and hands no more than
we can pay for. There are clerks in
stores and banks ou limited salaries,
who in the vain attempt, to keep the
wardrolte of their family as showy us
other folks' ward robes, are dyiug of
muffs, diamonds, catnel's-hair shawls,
and high hats, and they'have nothing
left except what they giye to cigars
and wine suppers, and they die before
their time, and they will expect us min
isters to preach about them as though
they were the victims of early piety ;
and after a high-class funeral, with sil
ver handles at the side of their coffins
of extraordiney brightness, it will be
found out that the undertaker is cheat
ed out of his legitimate expenses ! Do
not send to me to .'preach the funera
sermon of a man who dies like that. 1
will blurt out tire whole truth and tell
that he was strangled to death by his
wife's ribbons ! You are not surprised
to find that the putting up of one pub
lic building in New York costs millions
of dollars more than it ought to have
cost, when you find that the man who
gaye out the contract paid more than
$5,000 for his daughter's wedding dressy
Cashmeres of SI,OOO each have not been
rare on Broadway. It is estimated
that there are 8 00u womeu in these two
cities who have expended on their per
sonal array $2,000 a year.
TIIE TRAGEDY OF HUMAN CLOTHES.
4 *Whal are the men to do in order to
keep up such home wardrobes ? Stea 1.
Tint is the only respectable thing they
can do ! During the last fifteen; years
there have been innumerable fine busi
ness men shipwrecked ou the wardrobe.
The temptation comes iu this way : A
man thinks more of his family than all
the world outside.and if they spend the
evening in describing to him the super
ior wardrobe of the family across the
street that they cannot bear the sight
of. the man is thrown upon his gallan
try and his pride of family, and with
out translating his feelings into plain
language he goes into extortion and is
suing of false stock aud skillful pen
manship in writing somebody else's
name at the foot of a promissory note,
and they all go down together—the hus
band to the prison, the wife to the sew
ing machine, the children to be taken
care of by those who were called poor
relations. Oh, for some new Shakes
peare to arise and write the tragedy ot
humau clothes !
4 -Act the First of the Tragedy—A
plain but beautiful home. Enter the
newly married pair. Eater simplicity
of manner and behayior. Enter as
much happiness as is ever found in one
home.
44 Act the Second—Discontent with
the humble home. Enter enyy. En
ter jealously. Enter desire of display.
Act lhe third—Enlargement of ex
penses. Enter the queenly dressmak
ers. Enter the French milliners.
4 'Act the Fourth—The tip top of so
ciety. Enter princes and princesses of
New York life. Euter magnificent
plate and equipage. Enter everything
splendid.
44 Act the Fifth and Last. Winding
up the Scene—Enter the assignee. En
ter the sheriff. Enter the creditors.
Enter humiliation. Enter the wrath
of God. Enter the contempt of society.
Euter death. Now let the silk curtain
drop on the stage. The farce is ended
and the lights are out.
44 Will you forgive me if I say in ter
sest shape possible that someof the men
in this country have to forge and to
perjure and to swindle to pay for their
wives' dresses ? I will say it whether
you forgive me or not."
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