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Cherriten and I were boys together in a
ig; establishment where the wages were
uiteias large as our services deserved. On
his subject Cherriten disagreed with me,
and he made up his deficiencies by borrow-
ng to such an extent that he found it
necessary, tp disappear just after he received
his pay. one Saturday aternoon, As 1 was
his creditor to, the extent of Dight cents,
which was a large sum of money in those
days, I declined to recognize him when we
met, and our relations remained strained
for two or three years afterward, he having
made several involuntary visits to Black-
avell'slsiandfor reasons which olice justices
thought sufficient. Both of us enlisted
when the civil war broke out, and although
T escaped being in the same regiment with
him, .1 chanced to hear from time to time
that he was bravely living up to his old
reputation and making occasional business
I courts martial. Our ways diverged
after the civil war, and for years I had for
gotten Cherriteu's existence, but one day
when I chanced to give my seat ina street
oar to a lady I was thanked ins voice which
1 recognized as that of Cherriten.
" You needn't be afraid to speak to me,
1tr. Bloggs,” said he, as our recogaitiou be-
came mutual. " I'm not the sort of fellow
1
used to be." Then he whispered, " That's
my chick—she that you gave your seat to."
I was not sure what ""chick " mightmean
in the vocabulary of the class to which
Cherriten had belonged when I knew him,
but I ventured to say, by way of congratu-
lation, that any man with so pretty a wife
ought to think himself remarkably lucky.
Wife? No more my wife than she is
yours. She's my chick—my child, I'm her
dad—the only one she ever knew, though
there's no relation between xis. Let me in.
treduce you.' Then, before I could suggest
that a crowded horse car was scarcely the
place to introduce any one to a young Wo-
man, he leaned forward and said :—•
" Chick, this is Mr. Bloggs, that used to
work in the same place with me when I was
a boy, and beginning to be a legular tough,
like I've told you so often."
A face that was really charming turned
toward me as I raised my hat, and a well
modulated voice said
" Papa never loses au opportunity to tell
me that he used to be dreadfally bad when
he was young. It really seems to give him
pleasure to give himself a bad character."
" I do it so as to keep her in hind of the
gr•eatlot ofguod she has done me." Cterriten
explained, as both of us resumed erect posi-
tions. She's been the making of me. She puts
ittheotherway—she hasn't cost nteauy thing
but money, and goodness knows that's easy
enough to get if a man is willing to work,
but she has had tospeudenough patience on
me to set old Job up in business, Honest,
now, Mr. Bloggs—I'm not fishing for emu-
plimcnts, but from what you can see off
hand don't I seem something of an improve -
tent on what T used to be as you remember
me ?"
I was glad to answer in the affirmative.
Cherriten never could have been a beauty ;
he was born of very bad stock, according to
his early accounts of himself, and he bad
large features under a small brow, but the
old dominant expression of lawlessness hart
entirely departed and there was a healthful
glow in his eyes and cheeks which told of
good physical habits. He was as well dressed
as any man in the car, and ho worn goad
clothing with the air of a man accustomed
to that sort of thing ; ha was neatly gloved
even, and carried a stick without seeming
embarrassed by it.
ly enough, einwhere and how
I'd
found
her. Therailroad f I1t couldn't do anything
that f
-oe t tosay
abouZthe' otmgone, ea p
I'd
r "' - With the other mut.,
y inti he m
0 1 o the cit w
T d back tie Y
grants—they 'thought I. was one of the
crowd --that they guessed they'd find some
way of disposing of it there.
" All the way down to New 'Rork that
young one kept throttling me. She'd drop
asleep once in a while and I'd try to lay her
down; seemed to be so infernal foolish for
a fellow like me to have a young one in his
arms. But whenever I tried te. drep. • her
she woke up and hung on tighter. What
do you suppose happened at last? Why,
she got so tired that she slept soundly, and
I put her down on a seat, making a sort of
pillow with the ragged coat 1 had; and then
—I felt lonesome ! Yes, sir ! I'd got so used
to the feeling of that child's arms around
my neck that I couldn't wait for her to wake
up again. I couldn't understand it, so I
swore about it, and when that didn't do any
good I west to thinking about it. ` I never
had any brothers or sisters, and as to my
father and mother—well, I suppose they
didn't find nee very interesting when I was
a young one. Anyhow, I sat there awake
in the car all night long, waiting for. the
child to waken, and every once in a while
I'd feel of its arms to see what there was
about them -oh, I was puzzled enough to be
Olean daft.
" When it did awake, though I was worse
off. How it did howl 1 It hugged me just
the same as before, but once in a while 15
would stop long enough to look up at me as
if I'd been real unkind to it. At last a man
whose wife put him up to it, came over to
me and said ;—
""Don't you got sense to know dat shild
is hongry?'
No, I hadn't, and when it came to the I
wasn't much better off, for 1hadn't anything
to feed it with, and I didn't know whether
it ever had been fed tempt in the first way.
Aud still the child kept on howling and I
kept on being sorry for it. • Queer, wasn't
it ? I'd heard thousands of young ones cry
in my time -.I'd teased dozens of them just
to make them cry—yet this one's voice tore
my heart all to pieces, and just as I was be.
ginning to find out that 1 bad suck a thing
as a heart in me.
" At last I stood up in the car, feeling
real desperate, and I shouted out :—
" Say 1 Ain't there a mother to lend in
hero somewhere—one of the kind that ecu
give a baby something to eat ?
" Nobody answered ; there weren't many
awake, but at last anemigrantwoman cause
over and looked at the child, and thou
brought a little cup of milk and a spoon and
fed it two or three mouthfuls and left me to
finish the job. I' was pretty awkward, as
you may imagine, but Chick got there every
time I gave her a fair show with tate spoon.
" When we got to New York some of the
emigrants explained to a kind looking old
man ---et city missionary, I believe—about
Chick and rte, and he told mo of a place
where they'd take it in, end I walked 1 p
there, for I hadn't the price of a car fare.
Lots of folks that we passed looked at us
funnily, and a good many of them looked
disgusted. I suppose we weren't a very
pretty pair, but the meaner anybody looked
the tighter I held Chick and the tighter she
held me. She seemed to know, somehow,
when I was beim made to feel bad, bless
her 1—she's been that way ever ainco. At
beet I got to the asylum and rang the bell,
and then I thought to myself that in a
minute or two I'd have seen the last of her.
Well, sir, what did I do but take to my
heels and run as if the police were after me.
I suppose you don't know how that feels?
No . Well, it pats wings an the feet of the
laziest tramp in the city. Away I went till
I got out of eight of that building; then I
walked slowlY
+wasn'tfor I anytoo strongran
R
myself, not hexing Irad anything to eat fol.
about twenty-four hours, besides having
been awake all night.
" 1'4 ithout intending to I went down to
tho river, and on the shady side of the
lumber heap where I used to sleep nights.
It was warn weather, and the air from the
water freshened me. I tried. to think, but I
tumbled asleep, and when I woke up it was
because Chick was pitting my face— the
cunning young one' I don't see how she
brought herself to do it. My face isn't
a cart of row, lit td en ----We
rnuctl to t lint t Il
never mind. I sat up and began think-
ing ; Chiok sat in my lap and looked at mo
as hard as if the etas wondering what was
on my mind. At last I said to myself,
Old man, sometimes you've tried to keep a
dog, lent somebody always stele rt—some-
body that could steal more grub for it than
you could, Suppose you keep this tiring ?
'Tain't as good looking as is ting—I was
howshe looked then—a
to l.m of ou rad it'll
talking
make more 1 ronhle, ea nobodyy '11 1 'link of
)touking it 1" Then I said, 'What do you
think of the notion, Chick ?' and she pat up
both arms to me. Great Lord 1 Wild
horses couldn't have dragged her front 11n0
after that. But what was I to do ? 1
hadn't any home—end I didn't know bow
soon she might get hungry again.
i Besides, I was all gone inside myself.
I remembered seeing women with children
1 begging in the streets and at the fere ids; as
for that, I'tl done begging on my own ac-
count many and many a time, and got up
lies big enough to squeeze out money to get
drunk on. So I went to the nearest ferry
and watched my chances, and stood on the
side of the crowd where the policeman
wasn't and held out my ltat. It fetched a
good many of the women. I was astonish-
ed at what I took in from one single boat-
ful and I didn't waitfor any more, but put
out for a shanty I knew of where 1 hey sold
coffee and cakes and milk and that sort of
thing, and I gave Chick a good feed hefore
I ate anything myself. Tho woman that
ran the place was a rough creature, that
could outswear a tramp if he made her mad
—I'd heard her do it, but she had a heart
rile other folks, and she told me ':was a
shame I didn't take better care of my child.
ii,Ty child! The mere mention of it made
me feel—well, as I'd never felt before.
I told her that the mother was dead and the
youngster had rim down some in appearance,
but if I could get it started right I thought I.
could keep it so. The upshot of it was that
site told me where I could get it some cheap
new..clpthes with what money wets left from
what I'd begged at the ferry, and she'd give
it a cleaning up for me in the little kitchen
behind the shop as somas I .got back. Sho
was as good as her word. After it was over
Chick put out her arms again for me to take
her, but, do you know, I was ashamed to ?
It seemed insulting and shameful for me to
touch a sweet, clean, innocent little thing
like that, and I told the woman just how I,
felt.
" Good,' she said, "you'll be a man yet,
if you stick to that' Then she asked me
how much. money I had and told; me where
I could buy a clean cotton jumper for a few
dimes that would 'Make ire look a good deal
decenter, and then she hinted that if I'd
leave the child with her a while and take e
swim on the sly off the docks somewhere I
might be allowed in the free baths afterward
and take a genuine wash. 1 took her ad-
vice, but everything seemed like a dream.
I'd never had baths or clean clothes in my
life except the few titres I'd been sent up to
the island. The woman, at the coffee and
cake shop told me whore I could get decent
t a,
"She 1
1 t o said.He could a
11 so
that T was looking him over. "I wish you'd
let me come to see you, wherever your
place of business is, and tell you the whole
story. I'm sure you'd enjoy heating it.
Besides, it's a story you'd like to tell your
wife, if I'm not greatly mistaken. 'Tisn't
every day thab yon meet men that's gone
through what I have—and got as much good
out of it. Can't you come along with us
and see how I live—how she lives, toot
Maybe you may run against some of the
other boys that we used% to work with—
never know 1
,
who you'll meet nett in big
a
city like this, and I'd like you to pass the
word along that Cherriten isn't what he
used to be, and that he couldn't go beck if
he tried. We get out the next street but
one." Theo he bent over the girl and said,
"Chick, I'm trying to coax Mr. Bloggs to
come in a few minutes. Can't you help
me ?"
The young
woman
rsmiled and addel
her
invitation to C31etiiten's
As T had
half
an
hour to spare before my own dinner time I
assented, and within ten minutes was seat-
ed in as cosy a room as I ever had seen
anywhere, and Cherriten and I were begin-
ning to burn some very good cigars.
"Well,''said my host, proceeding at once
to business. " I needn't• go over old times
very much. I was a pretty tough lot when
you knew pre, and I got about ton times
worse each year for five or six years. I got
taken in by the police three or four times,
and by rights ought to have spent mast of
my time in jail. Father ami mother both
died ; hadn't any friends, rrh;air was geed
for the friends. 1 was loafer,thkf,wharf rat,
fighter and everything else that was bad ; I
was so tough that other fellows of my own
kind wouldn't stand me, so at last I had to
flock by myself. illy boarding house was a
lumber heap, and sometimes I ras.ltounded
out of even that by gangs of boys—a dozen
against one.
" At last I went on the trinip—thought
I'd get to some place where I wasu't known
so well. A good deal of time I followed
the railroad tracks, as moat tramps do, and
one day I reached a place where an emigrant
train had been wrecked half an hour ',afore
and a lot of people killed. Maybe you won't
believe it, but I was so low down that I
went prowling about the rocks, on the lower
side of the road, to see if anything hail been
lost from the wreck that T could steal.
Well, something had rolled down there and
had been overlooked by the people that
were searching. Well, I found something
—it was Chick. She was only about a year
old then, judging by the usual signs, and
she was about as dirty and shabby as the
mau that found her, and she didn't look
any the better for a cut or two on her head
and face. But site was somebody's young
one, I said to myself, and her folks would
be glad to get het back. They couldn't be
worth much money, judging by the child's
clothes, but they might stand the price of a
drink out of gratitude.
" Well, I couldn't find the owners. .As
near as anybody could tell, the man and
women that shed been with were both
among the killed. You know how things
are at such times—everybody's rattled.
Some folks told me to do one thing witb her
and some another. I tried to give her
away, but nobody'd take her. There was
another reason why 'I couldn't get rid of
her—she had both of her little arms around
my neck and I couldn't get them off. One
of the women that had been in the accident
said it was because the little thing was so
scared ; said she looked as if she was too
frightened to breathe straight, which is like -
lodgings fo hick mad me for twenty-five
cents erg it, and where I could have Chiok
f as
t k n as e o for tot cents a s while 1 v
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two
eek.
Ci crit. V I wanted to laugh at her when
she seal that, for 1 hadn't done any work in
years . xcopt loafing, though that's the very
hardest ltitttt. 1 tltonght about the luck I'd
had hi begging •at the ferry house, but I
couldn't work that racket again unless I put
both of us back• into our dirty rags again,
and I'd rather have killed myself than clone.
that. Strange, what sudden ahatigos come.
over a man sometimes, isn't it ? . I told the
woman I hadn't any regular . job, and she
said 1 could get plenty of odd jobs right
near her place by hanging around for them
and keeping honest and sober. Work—
honest—sober—why, it sounded a hundred
times worse than ' Ten dollars or ten days.'
" I did, though, 'Twas hard and the pay
was small, but I had Chiok to go back to
every night, and she paid me until I felt
richer than any man in Wall street. She
was always good natured as a kitten and a
puppy rolled into ono, and when she fell
asleep 'twas always with her little arms
around my neck. In the course of time I
found out that the only ugly faces she ever
made was because she didn't like the smell
of tobacco, so I stopped chewing Did ou
ever try to stop chervin ? No ? Well,
it's harder than starving. I ought to know,
for I've tried both.
" Well, everything went better and bet-
tor, until one Christmas Eve I took a drink
and then another, and some more after that
and when I went for Chick and she saw me
she wouldn't came to me, and the woman
who took care of her by daylight called me
a brute. 1 started for the river to drown
myself, but that wouldn't do, for who would
take care of Chick when 1 was gone ? I
walked the streets till I was sober, and I
was praying and swearing all the time; I
didn't exactly know where the praying left
off and the swearing began, but to this day
'think they were part and parcel of the same
thing, whichever it was. Christmas morn-
ing 1 went for Chick and she tools to me
again, and she and I went house hunting, for
by that tine I had saved up a few dollars.
We got board with a decent "ainily thath td
no children of their own, and whore the wo-
man was very motherly to Chick, but the
little thing never took any of her heart away
from Ire, bless her !
"Things went on well with us for two or
three years after that. I kept 50 straight
and worked so hard that I got a steady job
and put all any savings in the bank. Other
men that knew me and Chick would say I
ought to marry again—they didn't know I
was a bachelor—so as to have a mother
for the child. 1 ,rather thought my-
self that the little thing ought to have a
better chance and I talked with her about
it, for she was about four years old, and
seemed about four hundred whenever we
talked seriously about anythiug. But she
said, ' Don't won't any mothers ; dant want
nobody but papa.' Now imagine—but
pshaw 1 you can't—nobody can.
" Meanwhile she picked up some very
strange expressions, or made thein up, I
don't know which. I suppose you know
how young ones get a notion here and
another one there and then put them to-
gether in a way that a grown person never
would think of. One day, when sire was
about six years old, she paralyzed me by
saying :
"' Now, papa, I'm going to take you of
hand. I think you need a m'other's cave.
She was as gond as her word ; she's had me
in hind ever since. I thought l'd made a
great improvement in myself iu the first
two or three years of our acquaintance, but
'twos nothing to what she put the up to
Sho began to go to school and nothing
would do but that she and of should study
the lessons together. Now that she's order,
I think that trick of making school children
sit in class rooms five hours a day and then
study at home two or three hours afterward
is rank brutality, but in the old tin•eshWits
great fun to me to get her lessons with her
and then recite to her. while she looked as
grave as a cage full at owls, and gave inc re-
proofs, and corrections, and marks, and re-
port cards, and every thingthatthe teachers
at school gave her.
" 'Twas tough, though, when she got
further along
and put mo into fractions and
grammar. ilia you ever study grammar ?
Of all infernal—but that's neither here nor
there. Site had to study it, and what her
little head could take in 1 wasn'b going to
final: at, so I sweated my way through it,
midi got fractions into my bead so solidly
that I've never bean able to got them out
again, though I wish I could.
" In the course of time I was troubled
about Chick. Maybeitwas hamlet: so alio was
mine that I thout her a great deal better
and smarter than any other children I saw,
and that slie ought to have better chances
tend better company. Tlio man of the family
we lived with died, aad his wife was pretty
olel and had no family, so I told her that if
she'd keep house for ane we'd move into a
better neighborhood. I'd hire a httle flat
instead of apartme;its in a. tenement house,
and she and Chick could live like ladies.
She took to the notion for she had good
stuff in her, and her manners had always
been a mile above moat of the folks in the
Kruse where we'd lived, though it's a great
mistake to suppose all the poor are rough
and coarse. We came here five or
six years ago. I've worked up to be
foreman in a pretty big business,
and though I can't make much of a
show of myself I stand well with everybody
thatknows me, and Chick has any number
of nice friends whom she's slowly picked up
at school and church, and she takes pains to
make all of them understand that her papa
is the greatest; smartest, dearest, funniest,
best man in the world. Some of them have
opinions of the same kind about their own
fathers, but Chick makes no allowances for
any one, although I've tried to teaoh her
that children have aright to their own opin-
ions in family matters of that kind,
" Well that ought to be the end of the
story, but it isn't. All the years Chick and
1 had been together it had never occurred to
me that she didn't know there wasn't any
relationship between us. I'd been careful
not to tell other people anything about the',
way I came by her, for I was afraid there
might be a law of some kind by which some-
body might take her away from me. There i
was no reason why they should so do,
but people aro always feartnl about their
treasures, you know. One day when I was
sick at home, and lying in bed, and Chick
sat on my bedside saying loving and tunny
things to cheer me, and looking like the
beautiful angelic hearted thing she is, she
suddenly said :—
" II never knew a father and daughter
look so unlike. It's positively funny that
we haven't a single feature in common. I've
been noticing it a great deal since I began
to study drawing." "'
"I thought a moment, and then—I don't
think I world have done. it if I liedn't been
sick and weak and babyish—I told her the
story of our first meeting and what happen-
ed afterward. It broke her up it brake me
up too, but it brought her heart out a hun-
dred times more than it had been, though
she always had been all that was loving.
She looked at me as I never had seen ' her
look before any one, except when she was
saying her prayers. From that hour she) larepurpose'.
Theadultelri iiosna o
n good
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w s swoan—a woman bef re her time, legless withthe inferior
though ell her life hadbhetleading uptoit, be'detected
placing g sao
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t boiling
She had long times of sitting at my feet and water. The Wiest isingiaee will dissolve,
crying—not unhappily, for she, said it come completely, leaving no visible residuum,
fortett her a great deal to think how good while the inferior variety will show threads
I'd been to tier. I was afraid. she would of fibrous tissue and bo of a dark color, cif teu.
grow morbid and 1Qoney, so 1 made light of almost brown.
all I'd done, and told her that I'el been re-
paid a thousand, times, which was true. The Feather Boa.
She was thoughtful for a few days, and To keep Ilbe maidens warm
then announoed that she was going t0 be And ward off the raging atoms,
everything to me that I'd been to her; See the chickens, chickens, chickens
she was'going to take,me in hand again and Striped of e'en their auiall pin feathers.
give me every thing I had given her.1lory the dickens, dickens, dickens
Well she's been et it ever ince. She's I an the live through h all the (weathers
twenty years old now, and being very smart l When itthiekens, thickens, thickens
naturally and ha•5iug had every edvantago And the breezes 'gin to blow
of education that good advisers could sug- And the ground is white with snow ?
gest and money could buy, she knows a But those many little mickles
great deal—and I'n1 being taught it all. 1 Of gallinaceous growth,,
have to take music lessons, with her for Doth the woman, nothing loath,
teacher; she snakes ire practice only an Hang about her though it tickles.
hour an evening, as I have a long day in Though in undalationssquirming'round her
business. I'm obliged to practice drawing jaw, jaw, jaw,
With tufts and tenets worming in her maw, •
maw, maw,
Site goes fleetly on her way,
Acknowledging the away
And theboauniversal regnum of the boa, boa,
,
Of the ticltling, prickling fad. the feather
boa,
and ci ndylanguages while riding to and from
home, and practice on her while at home.
I've got a good grip on German, having
plenty of chance to use it as fest as I learn
it ; but French—well, I've my opinion of the
people who got up such chatter. I won't
show you any of my sketches, but she will
if you stay long enough. We were on our
way home from the fall exhibition at the
Academy of Design when you met us, and
I'd been obliged to weed out the pictures
with my own eyes and tell her which were
the dozen best, and to her great delight—
and
mine, too, as to that—I was right in
most oases, according to the experts' re-
ports that she had clipped from the news-
papers. As I said, there's none of my
sketches that I would think of showing you,
butthere's one picture in the )rouse that I
want you to see, for a certain reason. A
few years ago I found myself forgetting
what I had been and I didn't want to -1
wanted to keep my gratitude very lively as
long as I lived. So I asked my employer,
whom I knew was well u about pictures,
who was a good artist in low life charaoters
—this was before Chick went into art. He
gave ire a name and I put, in part of my
summer vacation in having a picture paint-
ed—a picture of a tramp holding a shab-
by child whose arms were around his
neck. I was the model f r the tramp.
It took a long time to find a child that
would do, though, till the artist explained'
that the child's fa ce would not show any
I brought the prieture home and hung it on
the wall, and Chick would gaze at it by the
hour. I never told hot the story of it until
the night when she learned she was not my
daughter ; even then I told her only to quint
her, and show her, by comparison, what
she had done for me. Here's the picture."
As Cherriten spoke he arose and drew a
curtain which Iliad noticed on entering the
room, The picture was a three.quarter
length, by a very clever artist, and theprin.
cipal figare was an offensively realistic
tramp.
"Nathiug fancy about it, is there?" he
asked. "I told him I wanted it real, and
lie obeyed orders, I think it's the ugliest
thing of the kind on the face of the earth,.
I made myself up to look that way, and I
don't think I overdid niy old self Ont. But
what do you suppose happened when
Chick learned the story of that picture?
Why, she put this curtain before it the very
next day ; she said it was to be her shrine.
Every night since then, before going to her
own room, she kneels before thatpfcture to
say her prayers. I kneel beside her ; that
is one of the many habits she's taught me,
and I'm nota bit ashamed of it. 1 f any ono
Ina told rte-- She—h—hh 1 She's coin-
ing t"
"Robert
oUet'thcome
tea, papa."
"All right, Chink, I'll be there in a mo-
ment." Then he said to me, " Robert is
my employer's son, and one of the finest
young fellows alive ; I've been noticing him.
closely for more than ten years, for he is
always with his father. He saw Chick one
day when she camp in to ask me for some-
thing, and he lost his head at once and
wanted me to take hint home with mo some
evtningg. I knew something of the sort
would have to happen some time, with some-
body, if Chick were to bo as happy as she
Mull would
hadright to be,so I tall n1 I t l
the rt i
g
think about it. What I did was to have a
talk with his father, first making the old
man promise to hold his tongue. I made a
clean breast of it, but the old man didn't
scare worth a cent; hosed his own parents
had come over as emigrans, and so lead the
ancestors of every family in the United
States. As to me having been a tramp, he
made light of it. The fact was, as he ac-
knowledged,cd, h hadseen
Chick himself,
and he
would be delighted if his boy could persuade
her to make a match of it. Chick did not
understand it for a long time, though the
young fellow came very often. Whenitdid
come over her she tried to back out—said
she?never would leave me, and all that sort
of thing. I told her she might always count
upon ins being around. Then she dila braver
thing still—she brought the young fellow in
here, showed him this picture andtold him
the story of it. By the merest chance I
happened into the room just then, and—
and' —
Well?"
ndand"—
\Vell?"
"Wel), Robert threw his arms around her,
and instead of seeming embarrassed when
he saw me he spoke up as inanly as you
please, and said
" " Thank you, Mr. Cherriten."
" That's about all there is to the story.
You're welcome to tell it to any of the old
boys if you meet any of them. I wish you'd
come to the wedding ; I'll send you an in-
vitation. If you want to nee the happiest
man there, though, look at me—not at the
bridegroom."
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