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66.The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller

A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a fuller, and begged him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened.

The fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would at once blacken again with your charcoal.”

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