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Samuel Foote: So she went...

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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. `What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

Source: Nonsense, quoted by Maria Edgeworth in Harry and Lucy Concluded.
-- Samuel Foote, (Jan 27 1720-1777), English dramatist, comedian, author; The English Aristophanes was a one-legged comedian who starred in Lame Lover, 1770 and mimicked prominent persons; wrote The Minor, 1760.


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