 Ah! Easily said. I am the son, Mr Meagles, of a hard father and mother. I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 245edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
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