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Then he'd look kind of sorry for havin' said it, and tell how kind some of the good women was to him, how one spread an edder-down comforter for him, and another fixed up somethin' hot for him after the lecter, and another one said, "There now, you smoke that cigar of yours after the lecter, jest as if you was at home," and if they'd all been like that, he'd have gone on lectering forever, but, as it was, he had got pooty nigh enough of it, and preferred a nateral death to puttin' himself out of the world by such violent means as lecterin'.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858