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PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
“Provisions of the Constitution!” said Mrs. Partington,
with an earnest air and tone; “for my part I
should be glad to see 'em. Heaven and all of us knows
provisions is scarce enough and dear enough, and if they
can turn the Constitution to so good a use I 'm glad of
it. Anything that will have a tenderness to cheapen the
necessities of life,” — and here she laid her finger on the
cover of her box, and looked earnestly at a cracked
sugar-bowl in the “buffet” in the corner, containing the
onion-seeds, and the bone-buttons, and the scarlet beans,
and the pieces of twine, long-gathered from accumulative
paper tea-bags, — “I am agreeable to it, and if they can
turn the Constitution and all the ships of war to carrying
provisions, I am shore they will do more good than they
do now a good many of 'em.”
She here ran down like an eight day clock, and she
smiled as Ike rushed in with his arms full of votes, and
his face full of fun and molasses candy, and asked her if
he should n't give her a “tig whicket.”
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