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"The little girls are crippled from these weights. The boy babe rides his sister for his first views of the world.... Look at the sweet little girl-faces, haggard from the burden of their fat-cheeked, wet-nosed brothers. A birth is a miss over there a miss for which the mother suffers when it is not a boy. The girls of Japan carry their brothers until they begin to carry their sons.
However, from every cabin came sound of laughing and romping, and now and then a youngster darted through the cold from one hut to another. It seemed to Peter Siner only a little while since he and Ida May were skittering through wintry weather from one fire to another, with Cissie, a wailing, wet-nosed little spoil-sport, trailing after them.
One little wet-nosed cherub I patted, so chubby and innocent she was; and Heaven send that the impulse profited me! This car was drawn by an ancient white horse, amiable and tractable as a saint, but as bewildered as I as to the meaning of the whole strange business.
Then he remembered a smaller sister of Ida May's, a little, squalling, yellow, wet-nosed nuisance that had annoyed his adolescence. So that little spoil-sport had grown up into the girl he had mistaken for Ida May. This fact increased his sense of strangeness that sense of great change that had fallen on the village in his absence which formed the groundwork of all his renewed associations.
"Teaching French to wet-nosed children, You are glad enough to think You can catch a worn-out sexton Even he is worth a wink!" "Hurrah! hurrah!" "But in these great days of progress, Ladies, to your sorrow know, You can't even catch a sexton, If you have not got a 'dot'." "To be sure, to be sure, that's realism. You can't hook a husband without a 'dot'!"
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