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AN INQUIRY ANSWERED.
“Does Isaac manifest any taste for poetry, Mrs.
Partington?” asked the schoolmaster's wife, while conversing
on the merits of the youthful Partington. The
old lady was basting a chicken that her friends had sent
her from the country.
“O, yes!” said the old lady, smiling; “he is very
partially fond of poultry, and it always seems as if he
can't get enough of it.” The old spit turned by the
fire-place in response to her answer while the basting
was going on.
“I mean,” said the lady, “does he show any of the
divine afflatus?”
The old lady thought a moment. “As for the divine
flatness — I don't know about it. He 's had all the
complaints of children, and when he was a baby he fell
and broke the cartridge of his nose; but I hardly think
he 's had this that you speak of.”
The roasting chicken hissed and sputtered, and Mrs.
Partington basted it again.
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