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`` Well , it certainly do beat me ! '' she exclaimed , after a fruitless effort to reconstruct her standard of propriety . `` I 've heard of ` painters ' colic , ' but I never knowed it to go to the head before ! '' `` Those there are whose hearts have a slope southward , and are open to the whole noon of Nature . '' NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that calamities seldom come singly , it was not until the Fourth of July that the Cabbage Patch was again the scene of an accident . Mrs. Wiggs had been hanging out clothes , and was turning to pick up the empty basket , when Billy precipitated himself into the yard , yelling wildly : `` Chris Hazy 's broke his leg ! '' Mrs. Wiggs threw up her hands in horror .