Rope maker and cloth questions in a frontier exchange
A humorous dialogue sketches a rope maker at service to a gloved clerk and a harried inquiry about shrinkage in wet cloth. A neighbor asks what Mr Hoke died of and is told a “complication of disorders” involving two physicians. The grapes query ends with a quip about two-legged hens.
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