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Then, while he yet fumed, she suddenly grew grave. "Was it truth he was telling?" "Truth?" he echoed. "Yes: about Lincoln Fair?" "Oh, the boxing-booth, you mean? Well, my dear, there was something in it, to be sure. You wouldn't have me be a milksop, would you?" "No-o," she mused. "But I meant what he said about about those women. Was that true?"
Morris Roberts was a gentleman known to local fame in those days I am writing of five-and-thirty years ago and Mr. Morris Roberts had a boxing-booth on the ground. In front of the booth he had a little platform, and from it he addressed the congregation gathered together at the beating of a gong.
A swarm of women had been called in to help in anticipation of the crush, and they got in one another's way, walked upon the cats' tails, and raised the tumult of a boxing-booth with the rattle of their tongues. All this was in the kitchen; but there was a side-room in which a long table had been laid for the guests.
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