COMPANY TRIALS. 



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her best to let " his folks " know they were welcome, and also 

 in relation to her looking so " slomicky " when company was 

 about. After receiving the proper amount of rebuke she goes 

 to bed, or to floor, rather, to dream about the days before she 

 was married, when she was so afraid she would die an old 

 maid! She gets up the next morning, makes the fire, and 

 goes through the ordeal of the preceding evening and amid 

 other tribulations till "his folks" depart. Alas! taking one 

 consideration with another, a woman's lot is not a happy one. 



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