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Mrs. Bird, who was a very impulsive, peak-nosed sort of a woman, and who always wore a red flannel petticoat protruding beyond her dress, and her shoes slip-shod, used to often say,
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and that
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She made it her business to watch the morals and religion of all the Longbows, and Turtleses, and Bateses, and report accordingly. She said
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She said,
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besides, she had it from good authority, that
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She'd heard that Mrs. Longbow's father got into jail once down in Pennsylvania, and that the hull batch on 'em were as poor as Job's turkey; and that the old Squire himself had a pretty tight nip on't; but his friends bailed him out, and he lean'd for the west. As for Mrs. Bates, she _knew_ she'd lie, right flat out--she'd catch'd her dozens of times; and, of course, Lavinia couldn't be any better--for as the old cock crows, the young one learns. She wouldn't swap characters with any on 'em, not she.
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Eagle tavern,