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SADIES' LIFE IN SHETLAND. 169
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_4 butcher but ind if therefore you ' s meat don cannot in 't chance such afford an to expen be to a s provide lad ive y manner of very your , you household must fortni mean put ht with up in s ,
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, _Careful for the prudent long winter housewife and , for so you the must spring see to and that come fish in . October You will are last you a
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, , y — poultry ield and you gam , rabbits the e , richest such , fish as — cream p from lover , loch butter and for * -locked , sni and varieties pe . cheese trout Then of ; to provisions your and deep the dairy -sea lay will and cod ing
time the in of inventing which stores , and of choose new the dishes forag to devote ing , will to emp such loy m every atters moment . of , the
most and In in all needful Lerwick the you isl of ands common ( which there is are groceries situated shops , where ear about thenware you the may , centr and pro e cure cotton of the the ;
from island a called concertina Mainlan to a d print , ) you gown may and . pro There cure leave are any the cap thing ital you shops wish in ,
this little wave-washed townsloops metropolitan importance harbour every throug week hout on their Shetland , way to . the Not different so much places out of of aiiy the
-world But ,- you have see , after wearied all ! already of playing the housewife , and
_you other you want character to see . Suppose what emp you loyment try bein I will g the find minister for you ' in s sister some ,
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Sadies' Life In Shetland. 169
_SADIES' LIFE IN SHETLAND . 169
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/25/
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