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being too much taken up with sentimental affairs 

 to be much interested in poultry raising. All 

 lovers who had been faithful unto death were 

 afterward gathered in Freyja's halls, and, though 

 the cynical might say that there probably would 

 not be much of a crowd, yet even a small as- 

 sembly of such ghosts would no doubt drive all 

 thoughts of a practical nature from the poor god- 

 dess' mind. However, Freyja's hens are as use- 

 ful as some real hens that I have had the pleasure 

 of being acquainted with. 



