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It needed but a glance at the new-comer to detect at once the form and features of the haughty aborigine, the untaught and untrammeled son of the forest. Over one shoulder a blanket, negligently but gracefully thrown, disclosed a bare and powerful breast, decorated with a quantity of three-cent postage-stamps which he had despoiled from an Overland Mail stage a few weeks previous.
She abandoned, as unworthy of her mistress, her old form of address and no longer simply called her "Miss," but "Frow-line," after tutelage from the small shop-woman who sold cheese to her in three-cent packages. But, ere much time had passed, the day arrived when Herr Kreutzer feared to have her even buy so much of luxury as cheese in three-cent packages.
"And what will you do when you get hungry?" "Why, I'm going to take all my money," forthwith going to a drawer in the old-fashioned book-case, and taking out a diminutive porte-monnaie, which contained her whole fortune, three silver three-cent pieces, and hanging it on her fat little hand, "and I can go to some g'ocery in the woods, and buy lots of butter crackers."
As a parallel case, I may add that there were plenty of intelligent people in New York city and elsewhere who were not aware that the United States still issued three-cent stamps, or who could tell the color of them, until the Columbian set appeared to attract their attention. The Nevsky Prospekt!
Nevertheless, his followers, because of caution, voted it to a second and a third reading. All sorts of amendments were made one for a three-cent fare during the rush-hours, another for a 20 per cent. tax on gross receipts. In amended form the measure was sent to the senate, where the changes were stricken out and the bill once more returned to the house.
No matter that the youthful editor's "Associated Press" consisted of baggage men and brakemen, or that the literary matter contributed to the Grand Trunk Herald was chiefly railway gossip, with some general information of interest to passengers, the little three-cent sheet became very popular.
Winnie, you observed a three-cent stamp upon the envelope for lavender was her colour, and two-cent stamps were an atrocious red! So one might feel certain that it Mrs.
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