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VOLUME VIII.
EBENSBURIJ, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1852.
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From the Westchester Republican.
A CAMPAIGX SOXG.
DT 0. W. I'lARCE, 9Q.
AirTht Old Granite State.
Our banner now is streaming,
And on its folds is gleaming,
A name with honor beaming,
From the old Granite State ;
That name shall be our rally,
The fort from which we sally,
And we'll not forget the tally.
When November comes around.
Come, round our standard gather.
It shall flout in cv'ry weather,
And we'll shout aloud together,
For the old Granite State';
Her son shall be the story,
And ws'll all protect her glory,
As we join the peaceful foray,
With our leader in the van.
We have act the ball in motion.
And we'll make a great commotion,
With this latest "Yankee notion"
From the old Granite State ;
Oh! the Democratic party,
Is very hale and hearty,
Ig very h.de and hearty
la ev'ry sister State.
We are ready for the battle.
And will it" with a rattle.
For we've got the purest mettle,
From the old Granite State ;
You niay see the fire already,
Is burning bright and steady,
And the boys are growing heady,
As they wheel into the ranks.
The Baltimore Convention.
Just stopped and said, "attention,"
While it made a modest mention
Of the old Granite State ;
In a momtnt there was roaring,
The name of Tierce was soaring,
And a peal of joy was jiouring.
Like a wave around the Hall.
We are all for the Union,
For tho old happy Union,
That has long in blest communion.
Held the noble band of States;
And we'll hold together ever,
And not a link shall sever,
But we'll stronger make the tether.
That binds us all in one.
We must not forget another,
A true and faithful brother,
And he claims as his mother,
Tho Alabama State;
He has stood upon the tower,
A sentinel of power,
Through many a trying hour,
In the Democratic ranks.
Bo wo'll pnt them both together,
And they'll s!im the hill and heather,
Like a bird upon the feather,
Through the whole United States;
Our watchword now is ringing,
For Tierce and King we're singing,
And around them we are flinging,
The mantle of the strong.
Then peal aloud the cheering?
There is victory appearing,
la him who had his rearing,
In the old Granite State ;
Ch ! we ll shout like creation,
'' hen we put him in his station,
i:;e ruler of the nation
From a Yankee Doodle State !
I"1" .Couldn't help laughing the other day, at
an ?.- -dote of a man accustomed to make long
pr . -r-t frho had over persuaded a guest great
ly '- :ii5t his inclination to stay to breakfast.
Hf i - ;-ed and prayed, till his impatient guest
i -o think of edging away quietly, and
a - off but in attempting it he waked up
1 man's son, who was asleep in bis chair,
soon will your father be through?"
w! . r ri l the guest.
' ? he got to the Jews yet?" asked the boy
"-o." said the other.
":, then he ain't half through," whispered
" '"'J and composed himself again to his nap,
rcupcu the guest bolted at once.
'flam, who do you Tote for?"
"i -to for de beepleB, I do."
" ' t:l, but what candidate ?'
"Cor President."
"v h :t President?"
"i'.:rn what gits elected mit de ballot-box, dis
Jr l.n ein fortnight!"
& There is a sign post on the road to Lake
:ch bears the following inscription :
'V.hor. this post is six feet under water, this
passable."
Johu Vail Bartn lu tlie Trace.
We are glad io see Jons Van Bent back
again in the traces of the national democratic
party. The following is a report of his speech
at the Tammany Hall meeting in New York, in
which he promises to put his shoulder to the
wheel for Pieiick and King. John is undoubt
edly one of the most talented young men of the
nation and can do much good. We welcome
him back to his "first love :"
The Chairman then introduced to the meet
ing Mr. John Van Buren. The enthusiasm of
the meeting at this point became more intense
than ever, and they shouted, cheered and clap
ped, with most deafening industry. At length,
Mr. Van BritEN was allowed to speak. He
said : Fellow Citizens, that I have not had the
pleasure of raising my voice during my past
life in Tammany Hall, was caused by circum
stances which prevented my doings so until I
came to man's estate ; and in the later years of
my life circumstances arose which would have
made it disagreeablcfor me to come here. He
had however, the honor of receiving an invita
tion to speak here to-night, and he took the op
portunity of congratulating them that a victory
had been now achieved of the great principles
of democracy over private interests ; and he
congratulated them also that he had now the
opportunity of addressing them in Tammany
Hall. He had never troubled the people by so
licitation for power or for place, and if God
granted him strength and sense, lie never should.
He knew Franklin Pierce from his boyhood, to
be an upright, bold, unflinching democrat, and,
above all, he knew him to be what was above
all praise an honest man. (Great applause.)
He knew him to be a man qualified to discharge
the duties of the Presidency, to which lie would
be called. He would support him candidly and j
zealously. He bore testimony also to the char- j
acter of Wm. R. King, the candidate for the
Vice Presidency, and he (Mr. Van Buren)-was
prepared to stand on the platform laid down at
Baltimore. (Great cheering.) New York would
stand on that platform, and he would not stop
to inquire under what vote, or under what in
fluence it was adopted ; but he would say that
he most unqualifiedly approved of that platform
for this election (cheers,) and would faithfully
and cordially stand upon it. He would now
speak to them in respect to the difficulty subsis
ting between them and him. He was prepared
to stand with them on an adoption of all the
laws of Congress, including even the Fugitive
Slave law. lie was perfectly willing everybody
should obey that law who would, and everybody
sustain it who could. For the present, at all
events, these laws were to stand and be unim
paired, and he appealed to his Southern friends
to adopt such a course. He asked them not to
agitate the anti-slavery subject. He asked them
not to denouce those who have peculiar views
on that subject, and he asked them to stay this
discussion on the floor of Congress. Allow me
to say, gentlemen, that the reason why I pe
culiarly rejoice in this nomination Ms, that no
section of the party has been defeated by it
no section of the party has triumphed by it. It
was a free, universal, spontaneous suggestion,
adopted by the democratic party, to which no
individual sect, locality or creed, could lay any
peculiar claim. What, then, ought to be the
consequence with us of this nomination ? Why
should it not be a cordial union in our ranks ?
Ought it not be an entire oblivion of past differ
ences ? Ought it not to be true that we should
join together ? for my friend from Tennessee
has not directly comprehended the division which
heretofore existed between us, in respect to hun
kers and barnburners. This is my feeling.
We should act upon this principle and from this
day we should remember no man except as a
democrat or as a whig. (Applause.) Allow me
to say to you there is one class of my fellow
citizens to whom this nomination of Franklin
Pierce addresses itself with peculiar force.
They are the young men of the republican par
ty of the United States. There is no party liv
ing, and never was, except the democratic par
ty, that stood in an emergency like that in which
they now find themselves. The convention at
Baltimore had passed over the great, distiguish
ed, tried leaders of the party for the safety of
the party and of the Union, and presented as
their standard-bearer a man of forty-6ix years
of age a youngman, new to the public sense,
distinguished only for purity of heart, depth of
patriotism and disinterestedness of purpose.
This should give the young men new encourage
ment. This should give them new life. When
they found that the high offices of the country
were open to men in the prime of life, in the
vigor of manhood, and before they had wasted
their energies in the struggle to procure position.
It would be encouragement to them to find that
the people voluntarily selected a modest, unas
suming man, living in a distant State, to occu
py the highest office in the government. United
as we are on entering on the great struggle, we
yet require all the prudence and caution of the
whig party to carry it successfully. Allow me
to tell you this federal party never surrenders
power without a deadly struggle to maintain it.
Having possession of the offices, having posses
sion of the patronage of the public purse, and
nsing it with uncrupulousness never equalled in
the history of the world, I say to you here, they
may appear to be divided, yet they are sure to
maintain a great and severe struggle, and one
in which the young men of this country shall
be called upon, as they always have been, to the
yeoman's service in the ranks. And it is for
New York, the imperial State, as our neighbors
call us, to come forward now as she did in 1800
now as she did in 1841, whea a distinguished
Tennesean was a candidate for the Presidency.
New York must come forward, and her giant
arm, and throwing the sword into the scale, give
to it an inclination to the democratic side. And
if this is the duty of New York, ought not the
democracy of the city, which has always been
foremost in the contest were radical principles
are involved who took the lead in favor of an
independent treasury who took the lead in re
lieving the country from the oppressive taxation
of an unequal tariff who took the lead in re
sisting the infraction of the constitution, fo the
sake of providing for the enlargement of the
canals ought not New York now ador t these
State right doctrine presented, and make an ef
fort worthy of her ancient fame ? Ought she
not make an effort worthy of her past career,
to throw a strength into the contest which will
make this old hall resound, as in the days of
Jackson and Polk, with the cheers of a victori
ous democracy ? (Enthusiastic applause, du
ring which the honorable gentleman sat down.)
How th Tiukre enred the Dntchman'i
Dog of ttealiag Sheep.
Abner was a quiet, peaceable sort of a Yan
kee, who lived on the same farm on which his
father had lived before him, and was generally
considered a pretty cute sort of a fellow.
Now it so happened that one of Abner's neigh
bors sold a farm to a tolerable green looking
specimen of a Dutchman one of the real unin
telligent sort. Von Mom Schlopsh had a dog
accustomed to obtain his dinners from his neigh
bor's sheepfold.
W hen Abner discovered this propensity in the
canine department of the Dutchman's family, he
called on his new neighbor to enter acomplaint,
'which mission he accomplished in the beet na-
tured manner in the world.
"Waal, Von, your dog Blitzcu's been killing
my sheep !"'
"Ya, dat is bad bad be ish von goot tog.
Ya, dat ish bad "
"Sartin; it's bad, an' you'll have to stop him."
'Ya, dat ish all as goot ; but Ish weis nicht."
"What's that you say ? He was nicked ?
Waal, now, look here, old feller, nickin's no use.
Crop him ; cut the tail off close chock up to
his rump. That'll cure him."
"Vat is dat ?' exclaimed the Dutchman while
a faint ray of intelligence crept over his fea
tures. "Ya dat is goot dat cure von sheep
steal, eh ?"
"Sartin it will ; he"ll never touch sheep-meat
again in the world," said Abner, gravely.
"Den come mit me ! He von mighty goot
tog ; all the way from Yarmany. I not take
von five dollar ; but come mit me and holt his
tail, eh ? I'll crop him off."
"Sartain ;" said Abner. "I'll hold his tail,
if you want me tew ; but you must cut it up
close."
"Ya, dat ish right; Ich make him von goot
tog. Here, Blitzen Blitzen, come right here,
you von 6heep-6teal rashcull I chop your tail
in von two pieces."
The dog obeyed the summons ; and his mas
ter tied his feet fore and aft, for fear of accident
and placing the tail in the Yankee's hand, re
quested him to lay it across a log.
"Chock up," said Abner, as he drew the tail
over the log.
"Ya, dat is right. Now, you von tam tief
sheep, I learns you petter luck," said Von Mom
Schlopsh, as he raised the axe. It descended J
and as it did so, Abner, with characteristic pres
ence of mind, gave a sudden jerk, and brought
Blitzcn's neck over the log, and the head rolled
over the side.
"Waal, I swow!" said Abner, with apparent
astonishment, as he dropped the headless trunk
of the dog ; "that was a leetle too close !"
"Mine Cot !" exclaimed the Dutchman, "yow
shvsl cut him ojj de wrong end."
Tribute to Woman.
There is something about woman that is curi
ous, isn't there? This morning I swept the
school house. I thought it was nicely done. I
felt proud. Presently some girls came in ; and
one, true to the instinctive sense of neatness
characteristic of her sex, took the broom. She
swept after me and, good gracious, what a
change ! It seemed as if well I cant tell ; but
when she had got done, I had a very poor opin
ion of my house-keeping powers, I assure you.
The stave-hearth, the wood by the stove, all, ev
ery thing, put on that look which only woman
can give. What in creation is it that makes
them give such an air to things ?
fi&A Quandary. To sit on a sofa between
two pretty girls, one with black eyes, jet ring
lets, and rosy cheeks, the other with soft blue
eyes, sunny ringlets, and red cheeks and lips,
and both laughing at you at the same time. We
know of nothing more trying - to one, unless it
be to have both arms in the dough, and a flea
up the leg of our trowscrs.
TI Female Aesasln.
By P. K. Cambacere3, Arch-chance of Franca.
At the close of the Directory, the keeper of a
hotel garni, waited on the Minister of Police, in
a state of great agitation and stated that one of
his lodgers had been murdered on the preceed
ing night. He 'ngaged his lodging about six
in the evening, described himself as an inhabi
tant of Melun, who had come to Paris, on busi
ness. He went out, saying he was going to the
Odcon, and would return after the performance.
About midnight he returned, but not alone, he
was accompanied by a young and beautiful fe
male, dressed in male attire ; who he stated to
be his wife, and '-bey were shown to the apart
ment which had been repaired. In the morning
the lady went out ; she appeared to be fearful
that her husband should be disturbed ; and she
desired that no one should enter the room until
her return.
Several hours eiapsed, and she did not make
her appearance ; at mid-day surprise was man
ifested at her absence, and the sorvant at the
hotel knocked at tl e gentleman's door, but with
out receiving any answer. It was discovered
that the lady lock d the door, and carried the
key away. The door was broken open, and the
unfortunate man was found dead in his bed. A
doctor was sent for, and he declared it to be his
opinion that the min's death had been caused 1
by a blow of a hammer, adroitly inflicted on the
temple. The fema'.e never again appeared ; she
was sought for in vain.
In about a montii after, a similar murder was
committed. The victim was likewise a man
from the country, and his death was produced
in the manner described. The affair excited con
siderable consternation in Paris. Within another
fortnight a third crime of the samo kind was
committed ; and in all these affairs, the myste
rious female in man's attire was involved. It
is scarcely credibly, but nevertheless true, that
18 or 20 of these murders were committed with
impunity ! In every instance the little that
was seen of the womanr. rendered it difficult for
any one to "give a minute description of her
person all the information that could be ob
tained was that she was young, very pretty, lit
tle and well formed. This description of course
answered that of many women in Paris, besides
the murderess.
Meanwhile Napoleon arrived from Egypt, and
possessed himself of the reigns of government.
Being informed of the atrocities which had
been committed in" the capital, he directed
that active measures should be taken for the
detection of the criminal. He spoke to Fouche
on the subject. At this time, the Capital was
filled with Fouche's spies. One of these spies,
a fine looking young man, about 20, was accos
ted in the street by a person whom he had sup
posed to be a very handsome youth. He passed
on ; but suddenly the thought struck him that
the person who had spoken to him was a woman
in disguise, and he immediately recollected the
female assassin.
"It is she !'' he exclaimed ; "I have discover
ed her, and my fortune is made !"
He turned back and entered into conversation
with her. She at first denied her disguise, but
finally acknowledged it, and the young man pre
vailed on the nymph to accompany him home,
in the character of a young relation from the
country.
"Where do you live !" she enquired.
He named a hotel in which one of the myste
rious murders had been committed.
"Oh, no, I cannot go." "
"Why ?"
"Because I am known there."
These words confirmed tho suspicions of the
police agent. He alluded to his property ; and
mention 200 louis which his uncle had given
him, of which he said he had spent tbe 20th
part, adding :
"Well, then, if you will not go to my lodgings
where else shall we go ?"
The female mentioned a hotel ; to which they
repaired. The young man was about to leave
the room to order supper, when the woman cal
led him back.
"Will it be safe," said she, "to leave yourmo
ney at night at your lodgings ? Is it not likely
you may be robbed. Suppose you go and bring
it here."
"Ah," thought the young man, "the veil is
now raised," and then, without the least appear
ance of suspicion, he thanked her for her prudent
hint, and went, away, under pretext of going to
fetch the money.
He repaired to the office of the Police Minister,
and gave information of the discovery he had
made. Furnished with tbe sum of 180 louis,
he returned to where he had left the woman.
He was accompanied by several agents of the
police, who stationed themselves at the door of
the apartment.
The murderess and her pretended lover sat
down to supper. She requested him to hand
her handkerchief, which she had left on a con
sole behind her chair. He rose to get it, and
during the instant his back was turned, she
poured a powerful narcotic into his glass.
He did not perceive this, and drank off his
glass of wine hastily ; but he had no sooner
swallowee it, than he exclaimed,
"What wretched wine."
The lady made the same complaint. A sec
ond glass was poured out pronounced hotter.
Meanwhile, the young man felt his head be
comng confused, and his lips growing stiff.
W ith well acted concern the woman rose, and
threw her arms around his neck, apparently
with the intention of supporting his drooping
head.
At this nloment he mechanically raised his
hand and felt the hammer in the side pocket of
the coat worn by the female, ne felt conscious
of the danger of his situation ; he attempted
to raise and leave the room, but his strength
failed him. He tried to speak but his tongue
was paralysed. By one desperate effort he made
one faint outcry,- and then fell on the floor in a
state of utter insensibility.
The woman drew the little hammer from her
pocket, and laid it on the floor. She the search
ed her victim, took his purse and deposited it in
the pocket of the waistcoat she wore. She pla
ced his head in the requisite position to receive
the deadly blow, and she raised her right arm
for the purpose of inflicting it, when the fatal
hammer was suddenly wrested from her grasp.
The police agents opportuuety entered the room
at that moment.
On the first examination she gave the follow
ing romantic account of herself. She was of
respectable family, and of irreproachable con
duct, but having bestowed her affections on a
young man who had treacherously forsaken her,
she had from that moment vowed implacable
hatred to all the male sex ; and the murders
she had committed were actuated by no other
motive than vengeance for the injury inflicted
on her feeling.
An effort was made, to screen the wretched
victim from ths punishment of the law. But
when asked why she committed robbery as well
as murder, she could give no satisfactory reply.
A pardon was therefore refused. This eertain.
ly is one of the strangest cases on record.
An Anecdote.
The inhabitants of a small town in Ohio were
recently in a state of great excitement by the
announcement that Kossuth would pass through
their village at a certain hour. Accordingly ev
ery person that could walk, man, woman, and
child, was at the depot at the expected moment,
prepared to give a warm welcome to the nation's
guest. It so happened that Kossuth did not ar
rive in that train of cars, but a returned Califor
nian was there, who prided himself on a mngni
ficent moustache and heavy growth of black
whiskers, and sported a Kossuth hat and plumes.
Upon seeing the parade, he stepped forth on the
platform, to the great amusement of his fellow
passengers, and was received with three times
three cheers. He raised his hat and plumes,
and bowing gracefully to the assembled compa
ny, remarked, that owing to his past labor he
was in delicate health, and should not be able
to address them at any length, but thanked them
most sincerely for their sympathy with down
trodden Hungary, and amid deafening hurrahs
returned to his seat in the cars. The conductor
gave the signal, the train moved on, and was
soon out of hearing. The inhabitants of that
village will undoubtedly go to their graves in
the firm conviction of having seen and listened
to Hungary's great patriot.
Matrimonial.
Eme'y M. Bonnet, whose worser half posted
her in the newspapers and then ran away with
another woman, contrary to the statute in such
case made and provided, comes out in the Woon
socket Patriot after this wise: "As no one
would have trusted him for as much as a peck
of meal, I therefore forbid any person or persons
trusting him on my account, as I shall pay no
debts of his contracting after this date. I have
worked to support him in gambling and laziness
as long as I mean to, though should he die soon,
I will pay his funeral expenses with pleasure."
What la lie Reserved for.
There is a lad of only twelve years, W. II.
Waddell, living at Pocahontas, Ark., who, in the
spring of 18G0, was stabbed, the wound thought
to be mortal ; the same fall, was knocked sense
less and cold, lightning; in the fall of 1851, was
run over by four mules and a wagon ; last win
ter, fell from the third-story window, lighting
upon a pile of stones ; about six weeks since was
shot, three balls entering bis body. The hero
of all these ugly accidents is still alive and heal
thy, being reserved, doubtless, for some other
kind of shuffling off this mortal coil.
Jjgj" Of all the melancholy sights, a bachc
por's home is the most so. A house without a
woman, is like a world without a sky, or a sky
without a star dark, desolate and dreary.
With the exception of the lady who "milked the
cow with tlie crumpled horns," we know of no
thing more forlorn and melancholy.
j&SyAn Irishman, being in a church where
the collection apparatus resembled electiou box
es, on its being handed to him whispered in the
carrier's ear that he was not naturalised, and
could not vote.
E3"Why is General Scott like a piece of
iron in the hands of a blacksmith ? Because he
is bound to be beaten.
A Bloomer lna Ilage.
Harriet Pomeroy gives the editor of the Ply
Mouth Banner a few digs in the bread basket
for his impertinence. Give it to him, Harriet,
until he pants i " .-autifully as you do. Hear
her :
"I have, sir, with others, stepped beyond the
bounds and dominion of fashion that remorse
less tyrant who rules more subjects than any
ten of Earth's mightiest Kings and Oh ! what
a crime it is, in the eyes of some superlative
modest folks ! Well, sir, ia there really any
thing immodest in a . pair of panU and a short
dress? If there is, then your sex must be im
modest beyond degree. The truth is, the im
modesty is all in the imagination, and not in the
dress. When I hear a man or woman, matinn-
, w
gratuitous remarks," I mark him or her. as the
case may be, as possessing a corrupt mind, and
an impure imagination. We have adopted the
"Bloomer" because we do not like to carry from
morning till night, suspended from our waist,
from two to four pounds of cotton, and half bolt
of calico, which we have to lift at every step we
tase it is a burden too grievous to be borne. '.
If as you say, "the long dress and four pound
petticoat is productive of much sickness and
death, why don't you come out and be our
champion, and advocate the universal adoption
of the "bloomer Costume?" Ilemember "con
sistency is a jewel !"' You think it "dispenses
with rather too much clothing in cold weather,"
this only proves that you gentlemen know noth
ing about the matter. In cold wet weather. I
wear under my pants, two pair of drawers, a
cotton and flannel pair, w hich makes me more
comfortable than any long dress open at the
bottom possibly could. You think also that
"the fashion might be changed by degrees, with
out causing any "gratuous remarks." Permit
me to say sir, we think you are at least twenty
years behind the times ; it has been demonstra
ted long ago, that to cut a dog's tail off inch by
inch, hurts worse than to cut it off all at once.
Yours for the Bloomers."'
HARRIET POMEROY.
Iife of an Editor.
The editor of a paper published at Canton
Ohio, gives the following description of his part
ner :
"Mr. Pike and I published a newspaper in
1837, among the Miami Indians in the State of
Indiana. It was a great partnership, that
We had two advance, paying subscribers, on
who liquidated his subscription with beans, the
other with saw logs. Godfrey, the chief, took
five papers, and could not read a word. Our pa
per was called 'Peru Forester,' and being prin
ted in the woods, that title was appropriate.
The town of Teru had a number of magnificent
names for its streets, such as Pearl, Broadway,
&c, which streets exhibited the animating and
bustling spectacle of stumps and trees as high
ns a man's head. The stirring events which
transpired in that city imperiously demanded a
couple of chroniclers, and Pike and I were at
hand to discharge this m important function.
Pike wrote poetry, and I dipped considerably
into politics, and discussed in a very learned
manner every question of interest to the few
settlers and Indians. Besides being an editor
and a printer, he kept the Broadway Hotel
was postmaster, justice of the peace, land agent,
pettifogger, canal contractor, 'nerchaat, and a
day-laborer, overseer of the poor, painter, had
been a schoolmaster, was twice a widower, was
raised a Quaker and the last time I saw him hs
was a preacher had married a third wife, and
was an auctioner, and what more I know not."
Great exhibition lit Ireland.
A great industrial exhibition is to "come oT
in cork some time during the summer. The
building will occupy a site of five acres in ex
tent, and the whole will be surrounded by a wall
20 feet high. The "Wexford Chronicle says :
"The Corn Exchange will be, as it were, the
basis of the building owing to the capacious gal
leries and halls it contains ; and in addition to
this, there are to be other large galleries abut
ting from the main edifice. An immense num
ber of applications are being made from every
part of Ireland for pace to exhibit. The exhi
bit ion will be confined exclusively to Irish pro
ductions. Maclise, it is said, has promised to
paint an original picture for the exhibition.
M. Dow ell will exhibit his 'Eve,' and also an or
iginal group: Foley, two original groups.
Contributions in art arc also expected from nu
merous other distinguished Irishmen resident in
England. Mr. C. T. Rocney, the great railway
diplomatist, is making arrangements with the
different railway companies in England and Ire
land, by which a scale of fares will be laid down
to enable the humblest mechanic from remote
parts of the country to visit Cork during the ex
hibition. Committees have been appointed, both
for town and country, to communicate with the
exhibitors, and to enlist co-operation. The
gross amount collected for the cxldbition exceeds
1-5,000.
An Irishman who had commenced building a
stone wall round his lot, of rather uncommon
dimensions, viz : four feet high and six feer
thick, was asked the object by a friend "to
save repairs my honey. Don't ycu see that if
it should ever fall down, t'will be higher than it
, is now."
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