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CHAPTER XIV. An Old-Fashioned Virtue

The American Country Girl · Martha Foote Crow — chapter 27 of 58 · ~37 words · public domain

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AN OLD-FASHIONED VIRTUE

Ill Housewifery pricketh herself up with pride; Good Housewifery tricketh her house as a bride.

Ill Housewifery lieth till ten of the clock; Good Housewifery trieth to rise with the cock.

Penny Magazine, 1798.

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