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HOME MISSIONS.
“So Mrs. Brattle has become a member of the Home
Missions,” said Mrs. Partington. “Well, I am rejoiced
to hear it, for her poor husband's sake; for, though I
think it a husband's duty to help about house some, he
should n't be left to wash and cook for himself and children,
and mend his own clothes, as poor Brattle has had
to while she was running round. I hope the home
missions will keep her at home now;” and the old lady
stirred her souchong with animation, as she made the
comment, and did n't see that Ike was making tremendous
havoc with the pound-cake.
It is astonishing what opposite effects will be produced
by the same cause. As, for instance, suppose a blacking,
whose principal component is alcohol; its effect,
when applied to boots, is apparent in the cracking of the
leather, and in the opening of fissures admitting the free
passage of water; when applied to man, in quantity, the
same fluid has the effect of making him “tight.”
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