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A HIT AT THE TIMES.
“Bred by steam-power!” screamed Mrs. Partington,
as she heard Isaac commence a paragraph about making
bread by steam. She laid down her work, placed her
hands upon her lap, and looked broadly at the boy
through her specs. “Bred by steam!” said she; “what
will the world do next? I wonder if this is one of the
labor-saving inventions, now. But I see what it will end
in. People are fast enough now, in all conscience; but
what will they do when they come to be bred by steam-power,
if they act according to their bringing up? Ah,
Isaac, people may be faster now, but they are no better
than they used to be!”
Isaac explained that it was a new mode of making
bread. She looked at him steadily for a moment, when,
taking a thumb and finger full, she put the cover on
the box, resumed her knitting, and told Isaac to go
on, which he did.
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