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THE SERVANT GIRL’S QUESTION.
A little servant-girl one evening made the bed of her master, and having made it sat on it. Another servant caught her in the act and rebuked her saying, "You low slut, how dare you sit on the Babu's bed?" The girl naively answered, "Are not all men equal?" The master who came in at that moment and had heard both the rebuke and the question in answer asked himself, "Are they?" and sat thoughtfully in a chair. The lines of Burns rose spontaneously to his lips:—
"The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that."
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