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at the threshold, asked her how she could bear to       have such dirty doors? Why does not your hus- band fetch a stone from the quarry?" "People who are far from stones and from gravel may have some excuse; but you have the materials within, and by half a day's labour could have your door made clean and comfortable. How then can you have gone on so long with it in this condition?"         "Indeed, I kenna, sir," said Mrs MacClarty;        "the gudeman just canna be fash'd."          "And cannot you be fash'd to go to the end of the house to throw out your dirty water? don't you see how small a drain would from that carry it down the river, instead of remaining here to stagnate, and to suffocate you with in- tolerable stench?"         "O, we're just used to it," said Mrs Mac-        Clarty, “and we never mind it. We couldna        be fash'd to gang sae far wi' a' the slaistery." "But what," rteurned Mr Stewart, "will       Mrs Mason think of all this dirt? She has        been used to see things in a very different sort        of order, and if you will be advised by her, she        will put you upon such a method of doing every        thing about your house, as will soon give it a        very different appearance.          Mrs Mason did indeed feel herself very un-        comfortable amidst so much disorder and filth---        and was determined to effect a change if possible.        It was with much difficulty she could obtain        from Mrs MacClarty the assistance of Grizzy,        to make her own apartment comfortable; the