Excerpt from A Ridiculous Courting: And Other Stories of French Canada

Bah! I find such angels every day grunting because they can't find husbands. It takes a pork butcher to weigh you all up and pen you, laughed Prudent. Come, Praxade, promise me the fattest pig in your pen if I find you a wife.

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