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I saw it hanging up in the kitchen of a thrifty, healthful, sturdy farm in Oxford County, Maine--a bottomless jug! The host saw that the curious thing had caught my eye, and he smiled.
'You are wondering what that jug is hanging up there for, with its bottom knocked out!' he said. 'My wife, perhaps, could tell you the story better than I can; but she is bashful, and I ain't, so I'll tell it.