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Show "Your husband is sick a good deal of late, isn't he?" remarked a southern Illinois woman to another. "Yes," answered the wife, "he's got ? down mighty hard with them ‘ere ? shakes agin." "I shud think it "nd bojsorter, distressin' like ter have him ‘round the house," remarked the other, sympathizingly;" spec'ly when you're at house cleanin." "Well, so it wud be," replied the wife, in self-consoling tones, "but when he's got inter one of his chill, and I want the rag carpet shuk, yer see he's a powerful smart had for hitch onto it." Then the other woman wended her way home, envying her neighbor the knack she had of utilizing her husband. |