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make sure that my spelling was correct. 

 I used the small dictionary to save time, 

 notwithstanding that Ions experience should 

 have taught me that I always have to refer 

 to the larger work before I get through. 



Well, I referred to a certain &quot; rocket 

 Dictionary of the English Language &quot; which 

 has in times past been the cause of much 

 of this sort of trouble, and read, to my dis 

 may, this definition : &quot; Paraphernalia, goods 

 of a wife beyond her dower.&quot; A pretty 

 mess I had made of it. Let us see how the 

 phrase runs with the substitution: &quot;A 

 steam engine with other appropriate goods 

 of a wife beyond her dower.&quot; Woe is me ! 

 Would any one have supposed in advance 

 that a steam engine should naturally be 

 classed among the appropriate goods of a 

 wife beyond her dower ? This opens a large 

 iield for speculation, and points to the great 

 extension and importance of the manufac 

 turing era, but also to an extension of the 

 scope of woman s activities. A steam engine 

 would doubtless, in certain emergencies, be 

 a good thing to have in the family, but it 

 lias its disadvantages. Phollis told me this 

 afternoon that my bluff rock had been her 

 favourite place of resort for study and quiet 

 reading, but that during the past week she 



