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Show Absolutely Unique. "Hear me one moment, madam!" said the. peddler at the trout door. "1 have not been rendered incapable ot active exertion by any sort of sad accident; I have not been laid up six months with inflammatory rheumatism; rheuma-tism; I have not lost my situation on account of my religious principles; 1 am not a poor man, but am doing ' pretty well ill my line of business; i j have not a wife and three children de -.' pendent on me for support, lor 1 am a ; contented bachelor, happy in the possession pos-session of no living relatives; 1 am not studying for the ministry; your next-door neighbor did not mention your name to me; I never " "Step in," interrupted the weary woman, with a deep sigh of relief. "1 j have been waiting for you for the last ten years. Step in I don't care what you're selling, whether it's horn combs or clothes wringers. I'll buy. And il you'd like a cup or coffee or a glass of good, hard cider, just say so. Step in don't bother to wipe your feel!' Puck. |