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mice in no way affects the general truth of the argument. 

 There are women who are not afraid of cows ; who will not 

 jump up in an open boat if it rocks ; who are not fond of 

 babies ; who do not care for kissing their female friends in 

 public. There are even women who will dress as they 

 please, and not as their dressmakers tell them. But these 

 are the exceptions which prove rules, and the almost 

 universal fear of mice by women can be accounted for 

 only upon the hypothesis of which we have above made 

 mention. 



