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Please please don't send any links or things to download!! Read this story then answer the question:

One dollar and eight-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Question: What does O. Henry mean by “with sniffles predominating”?

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Della is thrifty.

Explanation: (of a person or their behavior) using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully)

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