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Excerpt from The Tin Kitchen
But there! I did n't let myself be dragged out of the dust just to scold, but to refresh myself with a little gossip.
My complexion isn't so good as it once was, when many a spruce-looking feller and pretty girl has told me to my face (or rather my back) that I was just as good as a lookin'-glass, I was so slick and shiny. And them was the days when there wasn't a lookin'-glass in more 'n one house in ten in the town, and folks had to comb their hair before a pane of window-glass with something put up be hind it - or over a pail of water. And the last thing that Marm Ewen did on a summer Sabbath morning, before settin'
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