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I do love sewing; and you too, dear.
Now, do not be foolish—give it here!

30.
HE.
It is more than a man can well endure!
If I’ve mentioned this button once, I’m sure
I’ve mentioned it twenty times, and yet
I couldn’t induce you to sew it on.
It’s no excuse to say you forget!
It hung by a thread, and now it’s gone.
Just reach me the button-box off the shelf!
I’ll be hanged if I don’t sew it on myself!

SHE.
The lock of the pantry-door is broken,
And this is the fiftieth time I’ve spoken!
There’s a handle off this bureau-drawer,
And here’s that chair that you said you’d mend.
I will not speak of them any more ;
It’s always so, I find, in the end.
I’ll do them myself—oh, you may scoff,
But I will, if I pound my fingers off!

— Margaret Vandegrift (Century Magazine, 1888)

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