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Is it a petty or a profound trouble? I knew not; it is profound for your sons-in-law or daughters-in-law, but exceedingly petty for you.
"Petty! You must be joking; why, a child costs terribly dear! " exclaims a ten-times-too-happy husband, at the baptism of his eleventh, called the little last newcomer, -- a phrase with which women beguile their families.