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Chapter XXXIII: Dreams

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If yu are handsum, cultivate yure boots; if yu are hoamly, hoe yure branes.

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"Shut Nu Ingland out in the cold!"--i should as soon think ov shutting the cold out ov Nu England.

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I luv tu meet an old feller ov 70 on the rode, hanging on tu a pare ov trotters. Old fellers! don't give up yure pull, till yure obliged tew.

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Thare ain't mutch virgin virtchew in this world; it is purty mutch aul Magdalen.

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The trew province ov economy is tu see how mutch munny we kan liv the clussest on.

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The sudden ritch quite often find themselfs in the same ficks that mullatters are--just above what they started from, and just belo what they started for.

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He who draws his experience from the past iz alwus a man, and he who draws his experience from the futur iz always a child.

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If yu kant git good clothes and eddicashun too, git the clothes.

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Say "How are ye" tew everyboddy.

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If yu argy, alwus git beet.

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