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A DREAM OP DSTABGNASSAR;, 95:
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" Sir, Your Most Dear Daughters." " I Pr...
Leaped with fowling-pieces , fishing-rods , rifLes , and skins of "beasts and and A rather birds young . sharpened woman came face in I with recognised a hurried my step eldest , and daug in the hter changed , " saucy ,
said Peg It , " I is as softl very we had odd I started always she does called voice not her see made . me no , I sound thoug . ht I . could _" Margaret be neither , " my
seen , nor heard y . I was , evidently a true ghost . .. .. _' _.-feminine •' ¦ Margaret , trick sat of hers down even by the in childhood fire whistling she always . That whistled was an when un- ,.
. ; she was vexed . Wellit was easy enough to ; see she was vexed now . A fatslatternlygrimy , woman came to the door .
, , - "No " Ain' he t Master is not in in . ? Keep Dinner the ' s rea dinner dy . " hot , " answered Meg in a _:
, man snapp But of ish at thirt voice this y- — . juncture with his the gun master on his entered shoulder — . a _stoiit A shuffling jolly young
awkward ' _* Put lad stood behind in the him corner . and bring in dinner directly , since , my gun ,
It ' s ready , for a wonder , by the time I come in . That ' s the advantage " If were of bein more g two punctual hours behind cook time would , I suppose be more . " particular , " _,
you , said Stuff Margaret ! " answered , with a sli the ght gentleman shrug of her as he shoulders handed . his gun to the >
boy ceremoniousl " . The lad after placed itand it in disappeared a corner , , . threw Presentl the y game he came -bag back un- :
with an uninviting y -lookin , g compound in a yellow dish . Lumps of , mutton The gentleman swimming eyed about this in hot vision water with apparentl evident y . dissatisfaction . I .
saw ¦ "I Meg told change Jane , " colour she said . , " that you about hated cooking such messes must as these get .
But she is a foolshe knows nothing ; we , somebod " How y better or where . " ? I should like to know , " responded the
hunlast gry man irl we , , try had ing from to eat the the town abomin left in able a mess week . ; it " You is onl know y the the old
ones "I g who teach stay her . ! You What must do try I know to teach about Jane cooking how to ? " cook . "
" Then you ought to know . " . ¦ " " What Don't talk were such you nonsense taught then . " Girls ? " rep are lied not the taug husband ht cooking , in . an "
illt of empered " Don't to t be one so . out cross here , Ned . A Wh woman y , a is good lost many in these things solitudes , to be . " sure ,
no " Stuff use ! " me said Ned . . " Solitude or notrubbish never is of any . usewhile a little cooking is always useful , . " He pushed away his
plate , as with I am a . grim What look have of you disgust got . besides " There ? " ' s no eating that , hun-.
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A Dream Op Dstabgnassar;, 95:
A DREAM OP _DSTABGNASSAR ; _, 95 :
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/23/
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