rty-ninth Deuteronomy, sixty-forth to ninety-seventh inclusive. I
think we ought all to read it often.

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Perhaps so; I generally use a hair pin.

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What did you say? (ASIDE.) Children, do be quiet!

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OH! B FLAT! Dear me, I thought you said it was the cat!

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Since WHEN?

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Why, _I_ never heard of it.

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You astound me! It seems utterly impossible!

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WHO did?

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Good-ness gracious!

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Well, what IS this world coming to? Was it right in CHURCH?

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And was her MOTHER there?

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Why, Mrs. Bagley, I should have died of humiliation! What did they DO?

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I can't be perfectly sure, because I haven't the notes by me; but
I think it goes something like this: te-rolly-loll-loll, loll
lolly-loll-loll, O tolly-loll-loll-LEE-LY-LI-I-do! And then REPEAT, you
know.

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Yes, I think it IS very sweet--and very solemn and impressive, if you
get the andantino and the pianissimo right.

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Oh, gum-drops, gum-drops! But I never allow them to eat striped candy.
And of course they CAN'T, till they get their teeth, anyway.

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WHAT?

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Oh, not in the least--go right on. He's here writing--it doesn't bother
HIM.

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Very well, I'll come if I can. (ASIDE.) Dear me, how it does tire a
person's arm to hold this thing up so long! I wish she'd--

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Oh no, not at all; I LIKE to talk--but I'm afraid I'm keeping you from
your affairs.

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Visitors?

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No, we never use butter on them.

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Yes, that is a very good way; but all the cook-books say they are
very unhealthy when they are out of season. And HE doesn't like them,
anyway--especially canned.

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Oh, I think that is too high for them; we have never paid over fifty
cents a bunch.

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MUST you go? Well, GOOD-by.

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Yes, I think so. GOOD-by.

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Four o'clock, then--I'll be ready. GOOD-by.

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Thank you ever so much. GOOD-by.

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Oh, not at all!--just as fresh--WHICH? Oh, I'm glad to hear you say
that. GOOD-by.

(Hangs up the telephone and says, "Oh, it DOES tire a person's arm so!")

A man delivers a single brutal "Good-by," and that is the end of it.
Not so with the gentle sex--I say it in their praise; they cannot abide
abruptness.

EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE

These two were distantly related to each other--seventh cousins, or