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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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The squires prest forrards to welcome the new comer amongst 'em; and we had a Hagricultural Meating of the Bareacres tenantry, where I made a speech droring tears from heavery i.

It was in compliment to a layborer who had brought up sixteen children, and lived sixty years on the istate on seven bobb a week.

I am not prowd, though I know my station.

I shook hands with that mann in lavinder kidd gloves.

I told him that the purshuit of hagriculture wos the noblist hockupations of humannaty: I spoke of the yoming of Hengland, who (under the command of my hancisters) had conquered at Hadjincourt & Cressy; and I gave him a pair of new velveteen inagspressables, with two and six in each pocket, as a reward for three score years of labor.


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