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Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

CHAPTER XIX
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I will send the bonnet home in a box, and you can take it out." "That will do." "Shall I send it home this morning ?" "If you please." "Very well.

I'll see that it is done." After this I made a number of calls, which occupied me until after one o'clock, when I turned my face homeward.

On arriving, I was admitted by my new girl, and, as the thought of my beautiful bonnet now returned to my mind, my first words were: "Has any thing been sent home for me, Anna ?" "Och! yis indade, mum," was her answer,--"lots o' things." "Lots of things!" said I, with manifest surprise; for I only remembered at the moment my direction to the milliner to send home my bonnet.
"Yis, indade!" responded the girl.

"Lots.

And the mon brought 'em on the funniest whale barry ye iver seed." "On a wheel barrow!" "Yis.


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