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preach, and I take it, there is no particular sin in their 

 being men afterwards. At any rate they do common 

 mortals a great deal of good, for entering into their labors 

 and sympathies. 



Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 

 Hookertown, Sept. 4, 1858. 



[A little allowance might be made for Squire Bunker s 

 enthusiastic defense of the clergy, since his only daughter, 

 Sally, has just been married to one of them, but with or 

 without this allowance, we think the Squire brings out 

 about the truth of the matter. ED.] 



NO. 25. TIM BUNKER ON WOMEN FOLKS 

 AND HORSE RACING. 



HOOKERTOWN SCANDALIZED. 



MR. EDITOR : You never did see such exciting times 

 as we have had up here at the County Fair. It has been 

 the town talk ever since. Who would a thought it, that 

 we should have a horse race in Hookertown, and a woman 

 horse race, too ! It is enough to make a man sick at the 

 stomach to see what women folks are coming to. I thought 

 it was bad enough when my John got caught down to 

 Boston, two years ago, at one of those &quot; fair &quot; races, called 

 an Agricultural Association. I never thought the business 

 was coming home so quick. 



But I ll tell you just how it happened, and you ll see 

 that the Hookertown people are not so much to blame 

 as they might be. You see, last winter, the members of 



