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Quotation from Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

“Get her a flannel waistcoat and flannel drawers, ma’am, if you wish to keep her alive.”

Elizabeth Gaskell (spoken by Captain Brown)

Cranford, Ch. I, Our Society (Project Gutenberg text (1904 Dent edition))

Portrait of Elizabeth Gaskell

Captain Brown's practical advice to Miss Betsy Barker, whose cow has lost its hair in a lime-pit; the town soon sees the cow in grey flannel.

Citation: "Get her a flannel waistcoat and flannel drawers, ma’am, if you wish to keep her alive." — Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, Ch. I, Our Society (Project Gutenberg text (1904 Dent edition)). (id cranford-q3)

Portrait: Elizabeth Gaskell, George Richmond, Public domain.

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