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DIETETICAL COUNSEL.
“You must n't be too greedy, Isaac,” said Mrs. Partington,
as, with an anxious expression, she marked a
strong effort that young gentleman was making to achieve
the last quarter of a mince-pie. “You should n't be so
glutinous, dear. You must be careful, or you will get
something in your elementary canal or sarcophagus one
of these days, that will kill you, Isaac (she had been to
hear a course of physiological lectures), and then you will
have to be buried in the cold ground, and nobody won't
never see you no more; and what will I do, Isaac, when
you are cut down in your priming, like a lovely jelly-flower?”
Much affected by the picture her own prolific fancy
had conjured up, she pensively sweetened her tea for the
fourth time, and looked earnestly upon Isaac, who, unheeding
all she was saying, sat gazing at the street door,
revolving in his mind the practicability of ringing the
door-bell unperceived, without going outside.
Domestic peace can never be preserved in family
jars.
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