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Updated: May 18, 2025
It was at supper dinner, in Lichfield, when not a formal entertainment, is eaten at two in the afternoon that he fell a-speculating as to whether Her eyes, after all, could be fitly described as purple. Wasn't there a grayer luminosity about them than he had at first suspected? wasn't the cool glow of them, in a word, rather that of sunlight falling upon a wet slate roof?
Slick, this hitch? 'Why, says I, 'I've run away up South a-speculating in nutmegs. 'I hope, says the Professor, 'they were a good article, the real right down genuine thing. 'No mistake, says I, 'no mistake, Professor: they were all prime, first chop; but why did you ax that 'ere question? 'Why, says he, 'that eternal scoundrel, that Captain John Allspice of Nahant, he used to trade to Charleston, and he carried a cargo once there of fifty barrels of nutmegs: well, he put half a bushel of good ones into each eend of the barrel, and the rest he filled up with wooden ones, so like the real thing, no soul could tell the difference until HE BIT ONE WITH HIS TEETH, and that he never thought of doing, until he was first BIT HIMSELF. Well, it's been a standing joke with them southerners agin us ever since.
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