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places;" yet the abounding good cheer of the 

 farm proved very acceptable to the old nurse. 

 On their homeward journey, however, they spent 

 a week in the City of New York. Nothing 

 could exceed the discontent and disgust expressed 

 by old Mary Ann. Everything she pronounced 

 was better in Charleston, Vainly they tried to 

 impress her by taking her to see the impos- 

 ing buildings in the great city all to no pur- 

 pose ; she insisted that an old, unsightly building 

 in the suburbs of Charleston, the " Tobacco Inspec- 

 tion," was finer than any of them. So much for 

 prejudice ! 



