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I carried it throughout my wanderings; and as I sit here writing in my study, at this moment, I can see it hanging on a hook at the side of my fireplace. "Everyone," remarks Tristram Shandy, "will speak of the fair as his own market has gone in it." It came near being a sorry fair for me on the afternoon following my parting with the amiable brush-peddler.
Always at home, when I would have liked to stop at the roadside with a stranger, I felt the nudge of a conscience troubled with cows and corn, but here I could stop where I liked, or go on when I liked, and talk with whom I pleased, as long as I pleased. So we sat there, the brush-peddler and I, under the trees, and ate Mrs.
There's nothin' in the world so necessary to rich AN' poor, old AN' young as a good brush!" And with a final burst of enthusiasm the brush-peddler drove off up the hill. I stood watching him and when he turned around I waved the brush high over my head in token of a grateful farewell. It was a good, serviceable, friendly brush.
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