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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: mind, please get the butter and the cream-pitcher
out of the ice-chest. I have everything else on the
table."
"There is another thing," said Benny. "I don't
go about telling tales, but I do think it is time you
knew. The girls tell everybody that you like to do
the housework so much that they don't dare inter-
fere. And it isn't so. They may have taught them-
selves to think it is so, but it isn't. You would like
a little time for fancy-work and reading as well as
they do."
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