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SOURCES EARLY MICHIGAN HISTORY
expression, put up in three lots from which the husbands chose their wives, not unlike butchers, choosing sheep from a flock. There were sufficient materials to please the most fantastical, for amidst the variety of ladies in these three lots, there were to be seen big ones and little ones, fair ones and dark ones, fat ones and lean ones, so that any person could satisfy his whim in that particular. There was not one to be had at the end of fifteen days. I was informed that the fattest went off better than any other, for the husband supposed that from being less active they would be
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