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THE TRANTER'S PARTY.
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'If I be hot week-days, I must be hot Sundays.'

'If any of the girls should turn after their father 'twill be a poor look-out for 'em, poor things! None of my family was sich vulgar perspirers, not one of 'em. But, Lord-a-mercy, the Dewys! I don't know how ever I came into such a family.'

'Your woman's weakness when I asked ye to jine us. That's how it was, I suppose;' but the tranter appeared to have heard some such words from his wife before, and hence his answer had not the energy it might have possessed if the inquiry had possessed the charm of novelty.

'You never did look so well in a pair o' trousers as in them,' she continued in the same unimpassioned voice, so that the unfriendly criticism of the Dewy family seemed to have been more normal than spontaneous. 'Such a cheap pair as 'twas too. As big

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