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" Aaron Ball told me in town this afternoon," paid Daacon Hornbeak, reaching behind the door for his boot jack, " that his second coasin, Julia Ann, was married Inst week to a prafessor' "What kind of a professor?" inquired Mrs Hornboak. " 1 declare, I don't know. At the time s'posed, of course, that a schoolmaster was meant, and didn't ask any further . but, come to think about it, for all I know she may have married a corn doctor, a piano timer, a sleight-of-hand proformer, a dancin' mnster, a ballon asoensionist, a physician, a mandolin player, a boxer, a glass eater, a rope walker, a fiddler, a shabby genteel man with no visible means of support, or any one of a dozeu other kinds of professors."
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 275, 16 April 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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128HIS INDEFINITE STATUS. Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 275, 16 April 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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