Word: wantedness
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IN times past (though, of course, there is no such thing now) there have been many students here, with generous hearts and long purses, who have bought everything they thought they wanted without asking the price, and have given to every beggar that called, simply to get rid of them...
But this is only one case. We have all of us been as badly duped, though in some other way. I have not forgotten the noble tar with matted hair, who "had layed in the water thirty-six hours" (though his breath had such a West-Indian scent about it...
A FEMALE student in a Michigan Medical College, getting tired of living single, bought a man for $20 last month. He was dead, and she wanted him to cut up and study over, a piece at a time.