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Chapter Four
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Hm, hm, gent reader, are all your kindred well?

Allow me; you might want, perhaps, 4 to learn from me now what exactly is meant by "kinsfolks"? Well, here's what kinsfolks are: we are required to pet them, love them, 8 esteem them cordially, and, following popular custom, come Christmas, visit them, or else congratulate them postally, 12 so that for the remainder of the year they will not think about us. So grant them, God, long life!