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plenty, and soon's Bill got a thousand 

 dollars together we'd up and take a trip.' 



* Where did you go, and what did you 

 see?' 



' Oh, I don't just know where we went 

 'most everywhere, I guess, where the crowd 

 goes. We took in everything, you can bet 

 on that, and we stopped at the most toney 

 hotels, and had everything we'd a mind to, 

 and lived as well as the first in the land. 

 We wasn't goin' to be cut out by nobody so 

 long's the money lasted. When we'd spent 

 it all we went back home. Been to any 

 picture-galleries? I dunno as I has, but 

 when I was a young lady I painted sech 

 pictures as you ain't never seen since you 

 was born,' etc. Or: 'You not acquainted 

 with Mrs. Z. or Mrs. Y. !' (obscure Western 

 luminaries, in ignorance of whose very exist- 

 ence you have hitherto contrived to 'make 

 out '). ' Well, they're real ladies real 

 wealthy, you bet !' 



Then follows the wearisome inventory of 

 their plenishings and furnishings and per- 

 sonal effects. When it is over you feel 

 moved to throw decency and self-control to 



