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my nose."--" My dear," answered the                        husband, “I vow I do not think of it;                         but what shall we do? I am about wish-                         ing for vast riches, and propose to make                         a golden case to hide the pudding."-- “Not at all," answered the wife, "for I should kill myself, were I to live with this pudding dangling at my nose; be                        persuaded, we have still a wish to make --leave it to me, or I shall instantly throw myself out of the window." With                        this she ran and opened the window; but                         the husband, who loved his wife, called                         out, “Hold, my dear wife, I give you                         leave to wish for what you will." "Well," said the wife, my wish is, that this pud- ding may drop off.” At that instant the pudding dropped off; and the wife, who did not want wit, said to her husband,