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she ended by saying.  A while ago it was a Dutch oven that got rusted.  I told her and she knows I don't use it, but "it's very queer," she kept saying.  Again she took her old dishes for a subject and began about their being "crockled" and smelly.  She admitted once that Mrs. Sherman used to put them in the oven.  I never put them there or on the stove, but now I am to blame for their condition.  Can you beat it?

I get cross, of course, no matter how hard I try to keep calm;  and then she seems to think I ought to