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 Most of the townsmen, an' please your worship, quoth Obadiah, believe that 'tis all the Bull's fault

—But may not a cow be barren? replied my father, turning to Doctor Slop.

It never happens: said Dr. Slop, but the man's wife may have come before her time naturally enough—Prithee has the child hair upon his head?—added Dr. Slop

It is as hairy as I am; said Obadiah.Obadiah had not been shaved for three weeksWheu - - u - - - - u - - - - - - - - cried my father; beginning the sentence with an exclamatory