The Hand of Ethelberta, Vol. 1 of 2: A Comedy in Chapters (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Well to be sure!' exclaimed a milkman, regard ing her. We should freeze in our beds if 'twere not for the sun, and, dang me I if she isn't a pretty piece. A man could make a meal between them eyes and chin - eh, hostler? Odd nation dang my old sides if he couldn't!

The speaker, who had been carrying a pair of pails on a yoke, deposited them upon the edge of the pave ment in front of the inn, and straightened his back to an excruciating perpendicular.. His remarks had been addressed to a rickety person, wearing a waistcoat of that preternatural length from the t0p to the bottom button which prevails among men who have to do with horses. He was sweeping straws from the carriage way beneath the stone arch that formed a passage to the stables behind.

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