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holies?.
Vrhon oilier smile? shall woo thee,
And pleasures s!iH pursue thee ;
When hope's bright tl reams have rantsbod
Across life's marshy lea
Like strains of music stealing,
Unto thy soul appealing
With every tender leeiing.
Will be memories of inCi
And when at eve thotl roreji
With some one whom thou love?
lYrchanre there'll come a moment,
Wbt-rt thy heart will yearn to be
With her who once carressed thee.
Ah ! truer love ne'er blessed thee.
Nor fonder arms e'er pressed thee j
So give one tear to me.
Yet not in grief nor argttish.
Would I. love, have thie languish,
But kindly, and with pleasure,.
Think of all our happy days-
Qf bourn that fed so gladly,
Vi ijoyed by u3 so madly.
That e'en their memory sadly
Brings thoughts of love and mO.
Oh ! wilt thou th'on remember!
As fades the dying ember.
When life no l-mger lingers
In the once bright, sparkling faixie.
That none e'er loved so dearly,
And clung lo thc-e so nearly.
As she. whose namr has merely
Become a memory ?
JAlcrcry, Conipanioll.
Ycinan Unsextd.
Steadily the domain of private
life contnu-ts, the sphere of public
action enlarges, the rostrum
trams
on the fireside, and lor promises
that may be disappointed, we are
called to abjure fruitions whose
sweetness we have tasted. It was a
woman who listened to t'.ll 1 1 i n t en
thusiasm could paint of the exalt
ation a i i (4 the evanireiization which
are to reform civil society after the
experiment of female suiTrage, and
then nut the (iuestien with power
ful simplicity : "Jhit if it should
fail, how would you bring us back
to our present sphere ;,'
j here is a resident committee ot
women in Washington, charged
with the work of 'essin leihla
tion upon Congress, appointed by
the female suffrage convention now
sitting here. This is not altogeth
er unprecedented m kind, but it
may well serve the occasion for a
lew reflections. Xo persoh will
question the contrast between the
ollices and influence of the domes
tie sphere and those about the pub
lic halls of legislation. Whatever
may be thought of the relative dig
nity of the t wo spheres, their incon
sistency is indisputable. Tho hidies
who have accepted u post of duty in
the lobby cannot ask to be treat
ed as exceptional without deny
ing their repi eseutative character
altogether. Can we, then, applaud
the transfer from homes, that can
not receive compensating influ
ences, to public lii'e, of agencies and
enero-'ies undt iiialiy essential to
society ?
Aieu have hitherto made tile
laws and women have made tht;
homes. Jf the former are imper
fect, what shall befall us if the lat
ter become so too. It is trite to
say that civilization revolves on
the pivot of the family. Public
abuses are never fatal wh'le the
hearth stone is a refuse for senti
ment. 1 ut concede for its unutter
able sacraments the jurisdiction of
public opinion, and the fabric of
order musl faU to rutm i1d who
is so unacquainted with human
nature as to expect that woman
may pass from sphere to sphere
that she can bring domestic purity
to the help of the State without
bringing back the Slate into ii'rd
sistible contact with the home?
Perhaps the most melancholy
truth of the times is, that abuses
and perversions of the dominant
political party have brought about
so alarming a movement. Eor
ages, notwithstanding the earnest
repetition of alt abstract theories
that have ever been proposed, the
healthy instincts of both sexes con
tinued to divide the work assigned
to them by Providence, the holier
to the beautiful, the ruder to the
strong. Put now, a new argument
is advanced.
It ouolit to burn the dishonest
cheek of the political impostors
who, under color of doctrines
they never believed in, having de
graded suffrage in this country.
In the convention, on Thursday
Aliss Adele Iia.lett drew a har
rowing picture of the injustice of
men towards women, mid. scornful
ly miornu-d the male portion of the
audience that while they had in
franchised the ignorant' Chinaman
and negro, fr thrir cn-n sejUsh
tnih, they kept their mothers, wifes,
daughters, and sisters crouching at
their feet in a degraded serfdom.
This, then, is the whole secret
and ?prii;g of the threatened in
novation, and, as presented it Um.
call
y compels those who ipivo de
graded and outraged the high priv
ilege of suffrage, to accept the ar
gument or confess their hppoerisy.
J'at'iof.
Gov. IIoidex reports the txpon
ditures of Xorth Carolina for the
year just ended, $700,000. Before
the war, under the government of;
its own people, these expenses did j
not exceed 100,000 on an aver-I
age. I
A Frcjscted Paper Monopoly.
It is known to all -consumers of
paper, that within the last few
years important discoveries have
been made in connection with the
manufacture of that important ar
ticle, by Which straw and wood
now enter largely into its compo
sition, and that at present a large
majority of all the papers in this
country are printed on paper
manufactured in the proportion of
forty to seventy-live per cent, ot
rags. This lids the affect to keep
the prices down to figures consid
erably below what they inevitably
would be were the manufacture of
paper still limited to rags the
supply of "which would fall short
Of the present requirements of the
paper market; Still it is .averred
that straw paper is to-day thirty
three per cent, higher than rag pa
per was in 1SG0, which would seem
to leave no doubt that the manu
facturers of straw are obtaining a
good profit. Some recent develop
ments, however, indicate that they
are not satisfied with their profits,
find that they are projecting a
grand monopoly with the view to
advancing the price. The princi
Dftl facts: in connection with this
movement are stated as follows:
A company of eastern capitalists
was formed about eighteen months
ago, who bought up a number of
patents under which paper is man
ufactured from wood and straw.
The .principal patent upon which,
it is alleged, all others hinge, was
about to expire, and the lirst step
was to secure a renewal of this.
This was accomplished and the
patent extended. Thereupon a
circular was issued to manufactur
ers of paper using; straw or wood
m any way m the production 01
paper notifying them of the com -
bmation and of the extension ot
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the patent, anil demanding that
they should agree (first) to pay a
royalty of vne per cent per pound,
and second to bind tht rnSeives to
run on short time whenever re
quested so to do by the managers
of the monopoly "-the "object, as
stilted, being to reduce the supply
of paper, and advance the price
permanently to fifteen cent per
pound. It was argued that this
would greatly benefit the manu
facturers of paper, as it would in
sure large proiils On the products
of their mills, and place the whole
business practically under one
head. Paper manufacturers gener
ally, however, did not approve of
the scheme, and for the time it
failed. As a final effort, therfore,
the would-be monopolists have re
sorted to legal proceedings, and
the manufacturers arc as a conse
quence somewhat uneasy, though it
would seem that there should be
but one result to the issuc and
that the overthrow of the men who
are seeking to establish the mon
opoly. A convention of paper
manufacturers Was recently held at
Cincinnati, at which this matter
was considered, and it is intended
to make an effort to procure from
Congress an investigation of the
proceedings by which the straw
patent was extended, and if possi
ble, have it overturned. Undoubt
edly the matter is one which de
serves the attention of the press of
the country, in the interest alike of
publisherers and the public.
Printhifj Gazette.
Governor Baker, of Indiana, rec
ognizing the fact that much of the
notoriety Attached to that State by
reason of its loose divorce laws is
due to the facility with which peo
ple from other State", may obtain
a divorce after a pretended resi
dence in the Indiana, makes grave
mention of this evil, in ihe way
of a protest against its continuance,
in his message to t lie Legislature.
He also recommends a repeal of
the statute which authorizes di
vorce for any cause that the court
may deem suflieient, and recom
mends a limitation to such cases of
cruel treatment as are proved to
have been heartless and inhaman.
He makes other suggestion for the
improvement of the present di
vorce laws which, if adopted, will
certainly do much to remove from
Indiana the odium which now at
taches to her statutes on this sub
ject.
A stranger observing, an ordi
nary roller-rule on the table took
it up, and on inquiring its use, was
answered : "It is a rule for counting-houses."
Too well bred, as he
construed politeness, to ask unnec
essary questions; he tnrned it
over and over, tip and down, re
peatedly, and at last in a paroxysm
of baffled curiosity, inquired, T bou
rn the name of wonder do they
count houses with th.is'r'
The I'ndiana Legislature is in
fore travail again. A couple of
Republican Senators have deserted
their standard and joined the De
mocracy bag and baggage. This
gives the Dnmocracy a working
majority in the Senate. Of course
the Republican Senators are threat
ening to resign and go home:
Editorial Life and Dissipation.
Some monthr. ?ince the 3Jev.
Henry Ward Peecher, in the course
of a sermon at the funeral of a
Xew York journalist, took occa
sion to reflect upon the editorial
profession in general as given too
much to habits of dissipation.
We thought the indictment some
what harsh, believing that when
all the conditions- surrounding the
life of the average journalists ;nre
taken into account, editors are net
as a class a woiT.Cj but rather bet
ter, than the mass of men ; that
there is really as great, if not
greater, nttentip;: and regard paid
to temperance ih all things by the
members of this as of any regular
profession. We are still "disposed
to cherish this view, and yet it
must be conceded that there Is
enough of dissipation in the ranks
of journalists to awaken the live
liest regret among those who honor
the calling, and to challenge the
attention and effort of every well
wisher of the profession to the end
that the evil may fie brought fully
into view, and. if possible, its pro-
-.1 1 '-... T . s
gressMueu. conceding to jour
nalists no higher quality of moral
discrimination, and no greater abil
ity to resist the demands of appe
tite and the behests of passion,
than are possessed by other men
whose education and opportuni
ties have been equally favorable, it
is not dillicult to understand why
those engaged in newspaper work
might be more given to sensual in
dulgences than men in any other
calling of life. The temptations
that wait upon every step of the
journalist are greater in number
and more urgently pressed than
any other class of men are called
upon to cumenu v. itii. no is a
j public character whose company
. -
men seek, whose friendship and
aid all men desire, and whose pres-
ence is anvays welcome. Thus at
every turn lie is brought into con
tact with some, one who is anxious
to manifest his good feeling of
friendship, and the wine cup is
brought into requisition. Further
more, the general demands of
journalism upon the vital forces of
those engaged in it are to some ex
tent responsible for this dissipa
tion. The newspaper press of to
day is a treadmill, the ceaseless
terrible toil of which exhausts the
energies and grinds out the life of
its victims with certainty and rap
idity possible to no other calling,
and under ?. enervating and de
teriorating strain upon the mind
and body that it imposes, the ir
regular ami unsettled -life that it
inflicts, the call for some stimulant
that will re-invigorate failing vital-
1 1 v is oiieu imperatively eailen lor
if not indeed necessary. Still the
vice is one to be seriously and
earnestly discouraged, for "in its
prevalence not alone are individu
als, many of them men of splendid
promise, dragged down to ruin,
but the profession of journalism is
lowered in the public estimation,
and the title of editor is made a
reproach rather than what it should
be, a term of honorable distinc
tion among men, and of social
worth and influence to its posses
sors. Vrlntbaj Gazette.
A Story With a Moral. A
young man paying attention to a
young lady, met with the following
incidents during one of his visits:
Being invited into the parlor to
await the lady's appearance, he en
tertained himself as best he might
for some timec and was becoming
weary, when a little girl about live
years old slipped in and began to
converse with him.
"lean always tell when you are
coming to our house," she said.
"Why, when you are going to be
here sister begins to sing and get
good ; she gives me cake and pie,
and everything I want, and she
sings so sweetly when you are here,
and when I speak to her she smiles
so pleasantly. I wish you would
stay here all the while, then I
could have a good time. But when
you go off sister is not good. She
gets mad, and if I ask her for
thing she slaps and bangs
about."
"Fools and children tell
any
me
the
truth," he muttered and taking his
hat he left and returned no more.
Moral. Parents wishing their
ill-natured daughters married,
should keep their small children out
of the parlor when strangers are
there,
Kentucky, which was the ninth
State in the Union, in point of pop
ulation, is now. the eighth. The
glorious old State is more than
holding her own in the race of na
tional progress. Her advance in
the last ten years has been greater
than Ohio, notwithstanding that
she has suffered so greatly by the
civil war.
An Ohio girl has been widening
her sphere in New Michigan, by
acting as " first lieutenant of canal
boat and second mate of a rake
factory in men's clothes.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TTXTTtrTTP.QTTV (W C. A T.TFORNT A .
ATnieEill.
The fillcv. ing- among other res
olutions, was offered in the Xew
Hampshire Democratic Conven
tion, and. after being discuSred,
was submitted to the voters of that
State for endorsement at the ap
proaching election. It is a true
bill:
Jtesolccd, That nearly two years
have tested the capacity of Gen.
Grant for civil administration, they
have shown him little in intellect,
nothing in political virtue and
alike unable to comprehend the
duties, rise to the level of the re
sponsibilities and insensible to the
obligations of his exalted station.
He first gave the country a gift
enterprise Cabinet, ruating with
the ebb and flow of the donation-.
lie has made merchandise of the
appointing power, which the con
stitution placed i:i his hands to be
exercised for the public gcod,
until his great olh'ee has become a
" hucksters' mart" and a pool for
Wall street and other jobberies.
lie has billited an arniy of relatives
upon the revenues wrung from the
people, as if we were in the midst
of war and they were public ene
mies. Hy has driven from his
Cabinet those who would not make
their trust subservient to his inter
est, public plunder and partisan
ends. He h-1? done his best to de
stroy the independence of, and to
degrade that great tribunal, the
Supreme Court of the United
States. He has hawked about infe
rior Federal judgeships among the
rable as the reward for personal
and low partisan services. He has
connived at the reign of specula
tion and fraud in several of the
Southern States, and has attempt
ed by intimidation and military in
terference to deprive them of any
fair and legitimate exercise of the
elective franchise. He has at
tempted, by an array of military
force, to throttle the liberties of
the great States of Xew York and
Pennsylvania, and to deprive their
people of a fair and honest elec
tion, lie has purchased foreign
territory .and paid therefor the
mono' of the people of the United
States in defiance of law. Through
most unworthy motives, and means
as d srcputable, he has sought by a
miscalled treaty, negotiated by Ids
" military family" with a usurper,
to introduce into this Union a pop
ulation which would tie a fostering
curse to any republican government-.
And, finally, this mimic
Ca-sar now proposes to "crown
the edifice" with a " sound em jure"
and xo secure another four years,
flow of fdfts by overthrowing and
again reconstructing
the con
with the
stitutions of the States
aid of bayonet, until the peojd'e
thereof vote according to. the man
dates of so-called " servant ot the
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peojuc ami me purasu.es ana coi-
rujition which he
around him.
has gathered
The Democratic Xomixee. A
Xew York jajer says that the Dem
ocratic nomination for President
will lay between Thurmau ofOhio,
Hendricks of Indiana, and Casser
ly of California, blither of these
great statesmen would suit us to
a dot, and particularly would we
be gratified with the nomination of
our old time friend, Casserly of Cal
ifornia. We fear, however, that
Senator Casserly is not elligible,
being of foteign birth. But in this
it is possible that we are mistaken,
and if so, we second the proposition
to nominate the distinguished Cali
fornia. Senator for the highest of
fice in the gift of the people." Our
acquaintance . with Mr. Casserly
dates back many years, and we can
vouch for it a truer friend or more
ardent advocate of democratic prin
ciples is no where to be found. A
gentleman of polished manners, and
cultivated intellect, he would do
much to redeem the Presidential
office- from the disgrace that lias
attached to it since the advent of
radicalism. Not a buffoon like Lin
coln, or a sot like Grant, Casserly
would look and act the President,
and Americans would no longer
blush :-it the mention ofthenameof
their Chi.f Magbt ate. IF IF.
iStatesman.
-r9 - r.
An Irishman was traveling on
his road to Manchester, X. II. lie
arrived at the forks of the road
where there stood a sign-board,
which read, Manchester four miles
" 3Ian ehuised her four miles!"
cried Paddy, be Saint Pathrick, I
could have caught her meself in
half the time;"
Kissep. A country girl coming
from the field, was told by her
cousin that she. looked as fresh as a
daisy kissed hy thedew; .uXd, in
deed," was her dimply reply, "that
wasn't Ids name."
Complains. A farmer com
plains that when lie takes his wheat
to have it ground he finds a vcry
large portion of it is subject to
mill-dew!
Jim W olf and the Tom Cats.
Kark Twain's Arrant cf a Tragical
Affair-
I knew by the sympathetic glow
upon his bald head I knew by the
thoughtful look upon his face I
knew by the emotional Hush upon
the strawberry on the end cf the
old free livers nose-, that Simon
Wheeler's .memory was busy with
the oldeti time?. And sc I prepar
ed to leave, because all these were
symptoms of a reminiscence signs
that he wivs going to be delivered
of another of his tiresome personal
experiences; but I was too slow ;
he got the start of me. As nearly
ns I can recollect the infliction was
trenched in the following language:
Yv'e were all boys then and didn't
care for nothing, and didn't worry
about nothing, only to simc?chool
and keep up a revivin' state of div
ihnent all t lie time. This yer Jim.
Wolf I was talking about was the
prentice, and lie was the best heart
ed feller, he was, and the most for
givin, and onselfish I ever see
well, there1 couldn't . have been a
j bullier boy than he was take him.
! how you would, and sorry, sorry
enough I was w hen I saw him for
the last lime.
Me and Harry was always es
tering hint and jdasteiing hoi-s bills
on his back, and jmtting bumble
bees in his bed, and so on, and
sometimes we'd crowd in and bunk
with him. notwithstanding his
growling, and we'd let on to get
mad and fight across him, so as to
keep him stirred up like. He was
nineteen ; he was long, and lank,
and bashful ; and we was fourteen
and ten, tolerably worthless and
lasy.
So that night, you know, that
my sister Mary gave a candy pul
liu', the' started, us olf to bed early,
so as the eompanv" could have full
swing, and we run into Jim to
have some fun.
Our wiiulow looked out unto the
roof of the ell, and about ten
o'clock a couple ot old torn cats
got to rarin' and chargin'. about it,
and Carrying oft like siii. There
was four inches of snoW on the
roof, and it was frozen so that
there was a right smart crust, of
ice on it. and the moon was shin
ing bright, and we could see them
cats like daylight. First they'd
stand off and o-you pow wow, just
the same as if they were- a cussin
one another, you know, and bow
up their backs and jmsh up their
tails, and swell round and spit,
and then all of a sudden the gray
cat he'd snatch a handful of fur
out of the valler cat's hams and
spin him round like the button on
a barn door, but the yaller cat was
game, and he'd come and clinch,
and the way they'd ; gouge, and
bite, and howl, and the way they'd
make the fur fly was owerful.
Well. Jim he got disgusted with
this row, and 'lowed he'd clime out
there and shake 'em off ?i the roof.
He hadn't reely no notion of doin'
it, but we everlastin'ly dogged him,
and bullyragged him, and 'lowed
he'd always bragged how he would
not take a dare, and so on, till
bimCby he histed up the .winder,
and Io and behold you, he went
went exactly as he was ; nothing
on but a shirt, and it was short.
But you ought to .n-seen him creep
ing over the ice, and diggin' his
tee-nails in to keep from sipim ;
and, above all, you ought to a seen
that shirt-tail llnpqdu' in the wind,
and them long, redioulous shanks
of his glistening in the moonlight.
Them Company folks were down
there under the eaves, the whole
squad of 'em, under that ornery
shed of old "Washington Bower
vines all settin' round about two
dozen sassers of hot candy, which
they'll set in the snow to cool.
And they was laughin and talkie.'
lively; but bless you, they didn't
know nothin, about the panorama
that was goin' on over their heads.
Well, Jim he went a sueaken' uj
unbeknown to them torn cats
they was a swlsliin' their tails, and
threatenin' to clinch, you know
and not payin'-any attention he
went a sneakin' right to the comb
of the roof, till he was within a foot
and a half of 'em, and theft all of a
sudden he made a grab fortheyal
lar cat. But, by gosh, he missed
fire and slipped, his heels flew uj,
ami he flojjed on his back, and he
went oil'ni that roof like a dart!
went a slashiii' and a smashin' ami
a crashin' down through them old
rusty vines, and landed in the cen
tre of them eomp'nv people ! .-at
down like a yarlhqunke in them
two down shssers of red hot candy.
and let olf a howl which was hark
from the tomb ! Them gals well,
tliev looked, ycii know. They see
he wasn't dressed for company, and
so thev left. AH done in a second.
It w iust one little war-whoop
and a whisk of their dresses, and
blame the wrench of 'mi was m
sndit anywhere.
Jim he was a sight. He was
o-ormed with that bilm1 ot molas
ses candy clean down to his heels,
and had more busted sassers hang-
ing to him than if he was an Injurl
princess and he came On prancin
up stairs, just a lloppin and a cus
sin', and every jump he made lie
?hed some china, and every squinh
he fetched he dropped stjme candy!
And blistered! Wliy, :bless
your soul, that poor creature
couldn't really set down for as
much as four weeks. o
The Stevens Inventory.
It is fa r from plesant to meddle
with dead men's affairs, and w'e
never , should have said a
word abohit Mr. Thaddeus Stevens'
assets had it not been that his
friends introduced the subject to
the public. The apology now
made by accredited organs for the
suiiprcssion of the inventory is
that it was withheld because of "a
claim against the estate by the
colored woman," with whom, i'ot
i quarter of a century, Mr. Ste
ens lived, or who lived with Mr.
Stevens, and another connected
with a furnace in which the de
cedent has an interest.- Xot'djq
ing skilled in PennsylvaninQ Jaw,
we may be in error : but it occurs
to us, as matter of eommonsense,
that an inventory of 'M intestates'
personal projierty has nothing to
do with claims on the estate. An
administrator's instinct and duty
is to juit on record, as soon. as,
may be, for his own protection, a
statement of whatever property
be it Pacific railroad slock or not,
Which comes into his hands.
This is all that an inventory means.
To resist unjust claims, is a dis
tinct and prosterior duty. Sprxdy
it is not meant by our nggrophilo
friends who represent Mr. Stevens,
that they suj)jressed the inventory
in order, by a show of poverty, to
discourage " the colored wnnan"
from prosecuting her claim? And
yet that inference is inevitable, or
else there Avas a design in conceal
ing the aggregate, value of the es
tate, which can readily be imag
ined. Mr. Stevens, as las already
been stated, was ,on the verge of
bankru.jitcy oifly a few years ago.
A portion of:, his, property was
destroyed when the Confederates
invaded Pennsylvania Still, iit
sjute of these facts, and without
its being pretended that lie Re
quired wealth by legacy or dona
tion, he died, as is admitted hy3
parties interested, in diminishing
the value of the estate, irossesseol
-Si 40,000! How much more the
jitiblic is not permitted to know
because his legal rejresentatives
refuse to conform to. the accepted
usage, and purposely withhold the
information. In what mannero
was this fortune acquired in so
short a time ? is. the inquiry which
has iiot been answered. it is
enough to make the great agitator
turn in the grave which he pre
scribed for himself in the promis
cuous cemetary. With all this,
however, the public has non con
cern. All it has a right to "Know
is5 was Mr. Stevens, Radical lejider
and reformer, at his death owner
cf stocks or securities which had
the ear-mark of Congressional cor-
rujitiou ?
tion.
It is a very simple ques-
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A Persuasive Wife. A cor
resjiondent of the Denton Jfcnitor
says a handsome, dashing woman',
rode into a village in that, region, a
few days ago, and alighting Horn
her horse, went rapidly to a drink
ing saloon, where a number ofov
ereigns were having a "high time-.!'
She singled out the finest looking
man in the crowd, walked up to
him, seized him by the. arm and
ordered him to put down flic glass
he was about to drain. He dashed
down the glass and rushed away
The lady followed, and finally cor
nettd him in the billiarjl-rooin.
She told him, in a firm, determined
voice, that t he place he was ih .and
the course he was pursuing would
not answer for her , husband
that he was wasting her yropertyf
and that she would no longer coil
sent to be disgraced and .impover
ished by him. Sie demanded hjs
pistol. . He refused!, She took, it
from him, cocked it, and presented
it at him, and told him he-must
leave or die. He concluded to
leave. She marched him out as a
prisoner of war to where Ids horse
was hitched, ordered him tgmountj
and in a few minutts the two were
Ii-iviii"- town, the wife riding in the
rear of her capturedord, with his
six-shooter in her hand.
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A little hoy embodied his
thoughts on theology in wordsj
t has :
" I don't see how the devil
came to turn out so, when there
was no other devil to ptit him up
to it."
" Mammy" ! said a precious lit
tle boy, who, against his will, waa
made to rock the cradle of his
babv brother, "if the Lord has
any more babies to give away
don't you take 'em.
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The man who tried to tan leather,
with the"bark of a dog has gone
into the sausage business.
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