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A LADY AT SHINGLE HUT
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at the tucks and the rest—stupidly. "Where before did y' ever see such tucks and frills and lace on a night-shirt? Why, you'd think 't were for goin' to picnics in, 'stead o' goin' to bed with. Here, too! here's a pair of brand new stays, besides the ones she 'son her back. Clothes!—she's nothin' else but clothes."

Then they came out, and Joe began to spit and said he thought there must have been something on that brush.


Miss Ribbone did n't stay the full month—she left at the end of the second week; and Mother often used to wonder afterwards why the creature never came to see us.