Why don't men. . . leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all … - Fanny Fern

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I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

Fanny Fern

Why don't men. . . leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

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