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evils the most serious and distressing. But we must now 

 take a walk, for it is getting late; and indeed it looks so much 

 like rain, that I shall put on my pelisse. By the by, who 

 can tell why a pelisse is so called 1 ? 



ESTHER. 



I do not know, mamma. 



From pelhs, skin; hence pellice, pelisse; they having origi- 

 nally been always made of, or lined with, fur. 



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