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HUNK FOR THE UNION.
“The Union dissolved!” said Mrs. Partington, with
her spees upon her forehead, and her finger raised, as if
admonishing the universe. “Dissolve the Union! and
who would dare assassinate such a thing as that, — such
an outrage on the body's politics? I thought it would
come to this. And if they dissolve the Union, which on
'em will have the children? or will they let 'em grow
up without nobody to look arter their moral training,
poor things? Never think of dissolving it, nor breaking
it. `What God has joined together let not man put us
under,' and that 's gospel truth; and they can't do it,
if we stick by each other.”
With what an emphatic, italic jerk the snuff-box came
out, as she concluded speaking! The remembrance of
her felicitous union with Paul crossed her mind, and the
remembered pain of its dissolution mingled with her
patriotic emotion, and she dropped a tear as she uttered,
“What would our foreign relations think of it?” The
union was safe from that day, thenceforth and forever.
Mrs. Partington says it seems to her a queer provision
of natur that eggs should be “skeerce” when they
are so dear.
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