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PHILOSOPHY OF COUNTRY HEALTH.
“People may say what they will about country air
being so good for 'em,” said Mrs. Partington, “and how
they fat up on it; for my part, I shall always think it is
owin' to the vittles. Air may do for camamiles and
other reptiles that live on it, but I know that men must
have something substanialler.”
The old lady was resolute in this opinion, conflict as
it might with general notions. She is set in her opinions,
very, and in their expression nowise backward.
“It may be as Solomon says,” said she; “but I lived
at the pasturage in a country town all one summer, and
I never heerd a turtle singing in the branches. I say I
never heerd it; but it may be so, too, for I have seen
'em in brooks under the tree, where they perhaps dropped
off. I wish some of our great naturals would look into
it.”
With this wish for light, the old lady lighted her candle
and went to bed.
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