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HENPECKERY:

SHOWING HOW RICHARD SLOMAN WAS COWED DOWN.

BY SEBA SMITH.

HANNAH SMART was "brought up," as they say in New England, by Mr. Moses Gardner. She was an orphan, her parents having died when she was quite a child; and Mr. Gardner, having no family but his wife, took the child, by the advice and sanction of the select-men, to occupy that half-way station between a servant and a daughter in his family, which usually falls to the lot of adopted children.

Mr. Gardner was a good-natured, benevolent

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a farmer, in easy circumstances; who, as he had no children, made something of a pet of a favourite black mare, which he always used to keep in the best trim, fat and sleek as a porpoise, and her tail trimmed into a long and graceful switch; and she, in return, always carried him

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about, wherever he went, with a comfortable, easy, slow trot, that comported well with his staid, quaker-like appearance, as well as being very suitable to his heavy rotundity of body.

Hannah was a girl for whom nature had done a good deal indeed, on some points, it would seem as though she had done almost too much; for, according to the laws of phrenology, she had given her rather an undue portion of self-esteem and love of approbation, together with a full share of destructiveness; so that Hannah not only had the powerful elements of a vain woman about her, but was pretty likely, in the course of her life, to beat down all obstacles that stood in the way of her having her own will. Indeed, she always had her own will, while she lived with Mr. Gardner, almost without knowing it; for his easy, good-natured disposition, hardly ever opposed any obstacles in her way--and as to her vanity, it did not show itself to her disadvantage till even some years after she was married; for the plain, simple, honest society around her, did nothing to minister to its growth.

When Hannah was about fifteen years of age, Mr. Gardner advised his wife to allow her an opportunity to learn millinery, as there was a chance