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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'She d'belong to that class of womankind that become second wives: a rum class rather.'

'Indeed,' said Dick, with sympathy for an indefinite something.

'Yes; and 'tis trying to a female, especially if you've been a first wife, as she hev.'

'Very trying it must be.'

'Yes: you see her first husband was a young man, who let her go too far; in fact, she used to kick up Bob's-a-dying at the least thing in the world. And when I'd married her and found it out, I thought, thinks I, "'Tis too late now to begin to cure ye;" and so I let her bide. But she's quare,—very quare, at time!'

'I'm sorry to hear that.'

'Yes: there; wives be such a provoking class of society, because though they be never right, they be never more than half wrong.'

Fancy seemed uneasy under the infliction

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