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A perpetual late sleeper in this novel sleeps with his toe tied to a string and his foot out a window so that a coworker can pull it to wake him. In this novel, a man blows dust and chaff off a woman’s clothing when they are brought together at a granary by an unsigned note. Two men in this novel meet in a loft, one with an arm tied to his body, and wrestle to throw each other to their death. A pregnant woman in this novel dies in a fit of shame when hers and a man’s (*) effigies are tied atop a donkey and paraded through town on a “skimmity-ride.” (10[2])At the end of this novel, (10[2])its protagonist requests in his will “that no man remember me” and that his death not be told to his daughter. A hay-trusser in this novel calls off alcohol for 21 years after some rum-spiked furmity spurs him to hold an auction. For 10 points, Michael Henchard drunkenly sells his family in what Thomas Hardy novel? ■END■

ANSWER: The Mayor of Casterbridge
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