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...preliminary arrangements preparatory to a visit to the East having been made, Mrs. Butterfield and Benjamin started for Chicago, where they were to take a sleeping-car for Boston. Mr. Butterfield remained at home to meet a sudden demand for his "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator," caused by the arrival of a band of French Canadians, who proposed settling on the farm-lands in the immediate vicinity of Saug Centre...
...after living two days in this apartment that the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot told his wife that to know the Butterfields was a liberal education. Phillpot's great trouble at home is that he cannot keep his own wash-rag; if the children get into the bath-room before him in the morning, they invariably use his wash-rag, and the consequence is that Phillpot's heart leaps for joy whenever he visits strangers and has a wash-rag all to himself; and then Phillpot has been strongly impressed by the portrait of Mrs. Butterfield over the mantel-piece...
...portrait of Mrs. Butterfield and her younger brother, at the respective ages of ten and six, hangs over the mantel-piece. Mrs. Butterfield is represented in low neck and short sleeves, with one hand sliding from her brother's shoulder, and the other, abnormally developed, hanging almost to the hem of her skirt. Both figures look unsteady and unhappy, as though they had been trying to see which could hold its breath longest and were both about ready to give...
While the discussion of Benjamin's future is going on in Mrs. Butterfield's room, Benjamin himself is in the parlor reading a book entitled, "Notes on the Reiterated Amens of the Sons of God," published by subscription, and left as a parting gift by the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot...
...just come to a passage which he could not understand when he was called upstairs by Mrs. Butterfield, who was in a state of considerable excitement. Mr. Butterfield had run across another item in the catalogue, headed "admission," which had driven all thoughts of the cost of living out of the heads of both him and his wife. Benjamin was catechised about what he knew, and as that is a question readily answered only by members of a graduating class, he innocently admitted that he did not know what he did know or what he did not know...