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 them, to keep them clean, to be ubject to all their filth and creaming,’

‘Truly, Sir, you are but little acquainted with a mother’s feelings; a ingle friendly look, the weet miles and liping of the little innocents repay all labour and trouble—Look now at this little angel here, how he clings to me, the coaxer! Now he is no longer the ame boy that cried and creamed o—Ah, that I had an hundred hands to tos and carry you, and to labour for you, ye pretty darlings!’

‘So then! has thy huband no hands to work?’

‘Hands! yes he has hands indeed! tirring hands too, as I feel ometimes.’

‘How! can thy huband find in his heart to lift an arm againt thee? againt uch a wife?—But I’ll break his bones, the tyrant! the aain!’

‘Then, in ooth, you’ll have plenty of bones to break, if every huband that ‘lays