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Excerpt from The Entail, Vol. 1: Or the Lairds of Grippy
After the funeral Maudge removed with the pennil ess orphan to a garret-room in the Salt market, where she endeavoured to cam for him and herself the humble aliment of meal and salt by working stockings, her infirmities and figure having disqualified her from the more profitable industry of the spinning-wheel. In this condi tion she remained for some time, pinched with poverty, but still patient with her lot, and pre serving a neat and decent exterior.
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