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MOTHER BERTHA'S StORIES. 131 although she told me many a wonderful story after that time I never succeeded with all my cunning and persuasion in bringing Bertha Tuppenhaug to lift a corner of that icy veil in which she shrouded the mysteries of her incantations, lead melting, miraculous cures, and healing by magic. X2
