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[Illustration: AN ARTIST SCAMP IN THE HIGHLANDS
_Artist (entering)._ "My good woman, if you'll allow me, I'll just paint
that bedstead of yours."
_Cottager (with bob-curtsey)._ "Thank ye, sir, I' sure it's very kind of
ye--but dinna ye think that little one over yonder wants it more?"]
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