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The Wedding Eve ; Or, Married to a Fairy. C'HAPl'KR 1. Whe-ii I w** ill very ill. lKit.li in mind aii. I hotly n. -i iiLiiiy in. '.nli, :i)co. my kind prociireil for me large utwortmenl ol I hi- Tin- .1.. I,,,], nnd mont popular novels. hiefly ladioe, and one >i 'I -ill wrre ixvupied in showing how <lc!u it. mid how little underwtood a thing ic 'lie heart of H woman, and how little I^et me see, what will the nation do with [ it 1 Put. It in a iiiu-"iim, don't they? Or j in it in the academy cellars? Never mind; nv. Ji great honor, of course. I wish I nad gone in for painting. But you look fag- Wiuit u <-liangp. eh? l'v- dlwovured Laxatives accomplish their purpose with maximum efficiency and minimum discomfort. Increasing doses are not needed. 250. a box at your Druggist's. 174 Halteiul Drag and Chemical Co. l Causa. Limited. r bowed and laughed, but I did not like it. Madge knew how to muU<.- her pen-life jting. "Kiaotly." I said: "and play at being an art'fjt. Bat my dentinatiou i a state the jollient little you ever i*aw. No : I arrived. Mun had a railway, five miles from anywhere, and < m<>9l M fmon ^ ^ ... Mm _ . mile from ttie sea. Stuck on n cliff - , way of making room foT me IieaT Madge' 1 * you can live like * fighting-oock at * "Never mind," she returned, smiling ra- diantly into my fae, aa though conscious that h<r lat thrust had been too sharply barbed. "I dare eay we shall see the re- null of your visit on the line at Burling- ton HOUM next spring." "Among other respectable and popular mediocrities." "Now you ars being bitter at your own expense. Your work U far above medio- i crfty." I "But I don't starve In a gaoret, which. in your opinion, ie the one and only in- centive to talent. flood-by until this even- Ing." "flood-by, and don't be late for dinner." Then ehe leaned for an instant toward me, and whtapered very licrhtly, for Lady Carcheeter WQ B rathr deaf: "Don't forget Nicholas Wray." I did not forgot him. I bent my . , A . . , . T I ~^l" -.ll xflllV VfVm W tj ..MlniMl-. <T f W thy a being i* m.m to l> intriwted (Chilling day. und never e a noiil. Ro tEer step-cousins, for there was uo real re- Ith tkxa care of H: how coarse and grcwi i victors no room for any any you cant, i Mionshi| , between 111, bnt it ws one of Not only went we couswie. or ra- an- his tnst*r. h"v tuiftiable and waver- ing in : he |iai.>;oii he digu)fls by the MIIIIO of lore. at once in the direction of hid atudio; and M I -walked I thought about my Cousin Mdge. se* the French coast. 1 do so love to: those "c'iearlV'Vnderstotii "and" eettlod | Clearly I wa bound to her. and I liked get awiy from the French coast on a clear i f aln ily arrangements that we -were to no other woman eo well. For eight years d.-iy. Hun down in hour and half. mA ^ e ;1 ma^h n f i t *,<,, <j , - - .--, ... -...-.. ... . ~. u .^ day. My uncle ; we had eeen each other almost daily, and, IHo books containing these principles and you can paint ripping lug landscape* ; a,,,,} i, a( |y Carohester certainly wished it, I although I did not for a moment flatter have had u great tmU, and have run | all dy without any nativee 10 bother xa jjj tn<1 reB t, of the family, but when myself that ehe loved me, ehe wae fond you. There aren't any natives bmndes, they're too otnpid. Ho you're an A.R A. I now! Fellow told me the other day inn nt 'Another Bullied Artist.' as When ucky dog! Rolling ?-<! to an heiriNW. off?" Collara hail run himself out, stopped to t^ke breath, not to newer. I handed him my pockotb "Write down the addrew of that place you Bpoke of." I uid. And i -,!lur.. taken by surprlie before he was wound up again, wrote it down : "The Eoie and Drown Hotel. Lythinge. Kent." "It's an Inn. not a hotel, really, you know." he explained; "but -they think foot*!' is finer becauafc it has flv !!:> I.JL-:I many edition*, and after read- ing tiirm I was tnovl. perhapn in u spirit f prrrtest. to chronicle faithfully my own !-i -'. ir an n lover, adnntting. first, rmididly thst I may not t- accepted as n ordinary lype of man. on a-x-uiini of mv unusual capability a very unfa.<*hion able one in th-s end of iii.- century nuking an utter fool of myself where nUis-iionr. are concerned, I haw never written before, and ha iKrthing but the memory of mv eiperi- eiice u> guide mo on experience burned sit deeply into my mind that I shall have i-rccT difficulty in speaking of it without hi!ter>M>M. What I want to show i- thin: That iiu-ii. as well a women, occasionally hivt> hearts, and are none the happier or (1m better treated for It. It in the old story. I tiiippose- in dealing with ths other \ one must be the eiecntionor, or the vict.im. All I maintain In. thai the world- old strife i not, always ooe-idod in re- sult ; ili.- race Is not always to the wi!t, ur th- battle to tin- Hiving. The romance of my life, such an it was. lienan )iist six yearn ago. Its starting- point wa* the accidental meating In the I'.irk wKth :i foolih youth, a fellow club- man, who frittered hi* life away at lifter- noon tea-tables, and thought himself pop- ular ) Mife he wa* laughed at by half lh wdi-drrcoed men and wotnn in Lon- don. For the life of me. 1 never could remem- ber the fellow's inim-, but w all called him "Collars." on account of title tremend- ously high ones lie wore, and an "Collars'' I ihall speak of him now. ''I congratulate you, Hervey." CoUara hffan. "You are in luck. Heard about your picture being bought by the some- tiling or cither biuest for the nation. I to come, mid I mentally rt-olved t-o run down to Lylhinge within the neit twenty- four hours. The fact wa. T wan tired, and wanted to think. Tin- liondon eeaeon vrati in full wing, .'ind. being well off nnd sii'-cowful, I had -i many ' , n,l and acquaiiitnc that I nomtlmM sighed for my own so- ciety. Ahov<< all, 1 longed for tJio uea. I was born at sea. on a voyage to In- dia, whither uiy mother and father worn travelling 1o join my fathers regiment. My mother's people had been in the navy for generations -an ancestor fell by Nel- <on'i side- and a living g ro.it -uncle of mino wan a distinguished admiral. 1 Madge came of age. three years before, had resolutely refused to let the ' | marriage tk place until he had what vou sh called "a few years' liberty" to SO T - painting chap* never do any good when ; soine deoorous and highly cultivated oat* you begin to etlck letter* after your on }, w otm account. of me in her way. and had not the least objection to marry me at eome time. (To be continued.) COLONEL. GOETDALS. How He Rose to the Top in the Engineering Profession. i v- >* .. i o-n .^ ,,.,,-....., .. _- The Boluier and axiministrativc t. ami to be gained by tying ourselves up at -,.. , , . , . " 'or an ! , twe aty-one and twenty-three, it wae not , nulitary man have been bred for in< though we could not e*e each otfher ; three generations in George Wash- ;, ,.' ,.,.', i 8 ' 1 * t<X) ' 1 * very real Intereet, and often ' helped mo greatly by her suggestion!. Neither she nor I saw that anything was My tudio waa clcse to my ington the successful en- gineer who has just about com- his big job of digging the uncle's place, and Madge and I could be. together whenever we pleaded. Bome- timea it seemd to me that (the had about her capabilities for a really a*dent at- - taohment. sh.mid the right man come in | Panama Canal. He is claimed now "e^reU*/' hoped 1 bT'wSuld do"^! "wae i b y man >' <***<* * nd States, but he is very fond of Madge, but her biting. o,r- a Brooklyn boy, and although his letter* ^ tio r , en ?, I i rlui J Ura hirt me and her ance8 try is Swiss, and of the mili- II ii views of life, ajid especially of woman s _. , . ., lly old i _ . _ . ^ ._ , 4 ., . j(__,.i.i i fjirv SWIRR ut. That, ma arn.n^ltji.t.n^r t and inn has only three. Jolly oia , -^-^ ^ i t . ^^ disquieting in sanded Boor, you know. I it there and ,." Then. too. he flirtod eo . r - , . ,x,. ^e extreme. ine-n, TOO, tine nirnxi i drink beer and ask the farmer* about the u h watc hing her. I often rejoiced crops. That sort of thing rts a man j th-t l wag n<)t , n OTO ^, th hej ._ g ^ t the end of the season." . . , ! raaiiy'other mn "were. It wa not that I burnt out laughing, and he laiighea ; ^ UTI kiud or cruel. She waa, on the , without knowing why The picture <H)UtW y nred up before my mind eye of Col- | , her j alM>. oonji , . L"?' l mmaC " la .l <>I f, dr M * <1 ' ' mi "T tU ,", b ' y i ->. .o la... u w. ,w. .,-.-uu..- ^5"'^"'?. 7l***f- "11! L .ff r! . ,'^H Ud by liMto court of half-accepwd. half- UTI kiud or cruel. She waa, on the khld> U , A ehe encouraged to make fool , ot u^nj. U)at ahe always surround- and ajknig thm in his Englvah, irrelevant qu, - ,,-,n about the crops, struck me ae being Irrenitrtihly PPtTfl an nhft hftraelf ^xpri-t^ed it, in case uhould 'drop out of the running." r 7, 7,, . T .. * uiiouiu rup 9j n\. ui luv ruimiun. humorous. KtiJl, out of the mouth* of. Th h ^ a of ^^g it ^, ndi K ab *"_. w 5^. T ' *^ d " m . h ^^, l r. B ! 1 . k "*2 f our,e. it was absurd. Yet I often felt er of the sea and chi ceeded becaiute I love FOR 5ALE Cranston Cylinder Pr*s, faat machine for fix column, four page newapaper, uwd very little, in perfect condi- tion, low price. Wiloon Pub- lishing Company, 73 West Adelaide 8tret, Toronto. ,. . the ..-i in my blood, and. BI< they would not make a sailor of me, I becs.n:<v a paint- ips. I believe I suc- d It. I had a bit of a. yacht, and kept a deaf old salt and :.- girandwni always within call about the, coat, aud I got more pleanuro out of that boat than the stmartewt reception or ball coiilii give me. Aftex get line; rid of C'ollarn. I made my way along the How. nodding to acquaint- ance*, h V I looked out for old I.'rtv t'njx-he*tcr's oarria. Kverybody called Madge's mother "Old Lady <'.-\ixrtieter," although she could Tint really have been more than flv ami-fifty ; but ahe wax no i*mall. and wlsened. and painted, and had nomethiug no wiU:hlike and uncanny about he/r that xhe miirht have been a hundred. I stood in th way of a brilliant match for her, and eometimes I used to tease rti-r about it. "You won't marry me," I used to say, "ye* you let me keep other fellows off. 16 that reasonable?" But she had turned on me with eudden temper. "I act lik thii to pleaee myself." ulie -anl. "Suppose I like to ho a girl-bachel- or, or, In other wortis, an old inuid?* I presume I may pteaiw myeelf? Tt i- not at* if you wero in lovo and wanUMl to mar- ry some one *le." "II flood heavens, no!'' "You are not in love, are you. Adrian?" nhe had Muddenly ueked me very earnest- ly, laying her nnger-tips on my shoulders and gaeing up into my fac.e. "Not u little bit," I had answered, with perfect truth, and he lind puxhed me from her a little impatiently, and chang- ed Ma- subj<*ct by bursting into -itr.iv.i- gant.praleos of the beauties and grace* of her Ut.t f.iv.iriic actor. This had happened on the cocABion of our last meeting, two days before. To- day she greeted me, aa I eaid with a lit- tle offended air. "Why didn't you come to lunoh yeeter- day?" ibe aaked elurply. "The president oarne, and we expected you. It would do yon good to meet him like th.t. and Den- vil, the new art crltio on the Daily Pcet, waa there, too. It wae; very stupid of _. . . ill.' t " - 1 M1WIWI l^Jvf. . II .in 1! I > l-.ll '.M \ft She wss Uie diiiigbter and cole heiM. of not to com ^ what were doingr Jack*on - candles, or. to put it another ..j WB , .ketohing. and I couldn't leave way, adK mat/e.rual grandfather had my work." been a tallow millionaire from the north of Kngland, and liU mcniev had helped to my "Poor, dear thing) Tolling for yonr <laily bread or perhaps for a little scrap y the artUUs Nu-h-.l-m nine yeiuw ago. under the st.vlo and tUl if Hi-:. I -i, ' of Handling. A yenr later lii diw<)nolatn oonnteo* descended in rank n. step or two to liccorne i In- wife of my uncle, Itarnn (!sn^heitor. and M.i<lui- and 1 flrwt bfx-.im> acquainted My unrle (!a.r<-hester wan tlw- head of our K '. IU - T lngl" "Yes." Her cxprcfMlon oha-ngod suddenly, and lior dark cyc grew pitiful and moist. "Adrian," sho UI. In a very low voice, "you MIII-I flnd him out at once and help him. He linn boon ill, and he in nearly hotute. I wa hU favorite nephew, and nfii-i- my parent' deat,h In, hornx WHR u , in- I know It has grieved him alw.i.v "Who told you of" "Denvll said something which made ma r*ppct It. Bo I wrni.li NkOiolas Wray > . _ . il- !_ . 1 Jt 1 * ' *!'" l It. rw> A Wl'lw. n M.IIIIJIIIf ?T I .ly * that I tb ... of his be-rMov^ broUier ., 110 ,^ ..,,,, h|m ^ , unoh ,,), , J j am not heir to the title nnd whnt i left wa-nted to talk to him about making an Choose which Grain you like best for your white- Sugar and buy St. Lawrence Pure Csne Granulated white, la origin*! bags Pine grain, medium or coarse. Bach the ohoiceit Atk your Grocer. 91. UWMMCI SUCA1 UFINUKI. LIMITED HOMTUAL. SWItlWlriV.u. For Chapped Hands and Lip* Vaseline Camphor Ice Soodwt and heali cracked Via Krrpi It smooth, linn and hraltliy. Inanl on V ASH INF Ctmphor lot. in rtitei utilboxai. IS cnu. Drug and DcpAfinMiH t;orei swrywhcn. CHESEBnOUfiH MFG. CO. (ContfluUwd) JIM CWk.i An., f . #....11* ... W- IT. 1 /!- 111.'. I .1V1 Ml ll\ Wi II I IN l*UUUll IllUHlIir ; ,\v < !"bo f y 1 . I . 1 "w r h,r, t :o! na - beVr-rV''^ ",^1 -^' j"^* $ &J&*A** ^ ti,eT K n ri: lly Thev "a;;' wT nt m, ly t I*';; 1 - m" i '"" -. *h-nWnl -. but laying" he S2Z T xi r y f wl'mf to Uu tltlr. M t undM . t4lke an y w<)rk at prosent . jtlthongi Mlge f,,r o,,... who thinks a T - m there's something very wrong lot of tltlns. ; i.'ii-f It. to thru. ., ,,:,_ Kr Hut Madge rnimt rpeuk for herself, and 111 order to tell my Ml properly, I muni try ami make you understand her, nnd with him." But here tho thin, high voice of Madge's Is 111, he hns drunk i with Bo- 1 his work mother nhimed In: "If dniihn clsvcr, but I've seen better done with a bit of ohalk on the pave- ment." l,:lv OaTClMMOT eoldom nnoke, bnt when ilif dlil air her vlewe th.-v were usually old-fssliloned and emphstlc. NIoholKe W i i\ had lici-ii a fellow etudent of mine in Paris ntudlos. His work was chiefly 1.1 M 1. And whUe, dashing, brilliant cri- catfrei and "Impresslorm." ind as mu-li <Miuld not commend itsolf to Mudge's mo- tary Swiss a-t that,, his grandfather waa a surgeon in the French army and was with Napoleon at Auster- Colonel Ooethals. litz. His own father, John Goe- thaJs, was born in Switzerland and moved to Amsterdam in his early boyhood. In 1848 he came to this country, making his home in Brook- lyn, where, in 1858,- the present Colonel Goethals was born. Tho origin of tho family name is interesting. In good Dutch it ie the equivalent ' of the English "fiff necked," and was conferred on the first of the present line, who was one of the Crusaders, by an early King of Flanders. This man was fighting side by side with his king when a foe struck him a mighty blow. The sword was turn ed aside by tho armor and the man kept on fighting. A second blow was struck, but still the man kept on fighting before tho eyes of his king, until the battle was won. Af- ter the conflict the king called the warrior to his sidn aud commended him for his prowe*s. "Sire," said the soldier, "I break before I bend." "Henceforth," said the king, "thy name is Goothals, the stiff necked." The name has "stuck," and for centuries the family motto was "We break before we bend." Georgo Goethals started school vtvuni uuii < 0111 M it- MM .iNi 11 ! \A t n . -11 m - n mi , , . , . . ther. who In atrt rated "finish" above all at the age of SIX at old Public other aimli'tle,, Madge on her part, be- , School No. 15, State and Powers lleved lift Wry had a future, and M.idge ' ,,. , , neii j * \ T> w generally right. She made a funny Street (now Third Avenue), Brook- lyn. That was in 1864. He played with the older boys around in the lots which are now in the centre of a great eity. Nor was he a "star" pupil. The tales told by his teach- ers and associates hint that Ite of- little monn at me. unseen to Lady Cur- client/er. but he wan wls enough to drop fhe vuhject of Nicholas Wray, who by the way. chrrifOied no profound an admiration for her th^t now and then I wondf"ed whether he had succeeded In making some alight Impression upon her apparently nn- she heart. "You'll dine wltih us. of course?" . .il<l. "Otnerwlse, w may be late; snd I don't want to mire that duet in the llrwt act. Oh I And I want you to go with me to Hurllngham to-niorrow. ana - " "To-inorrow." I said, "I am going out of town." ' Hhs rained her eveb"ow. "Out of town! Why?" "Kscanee I am slek of U." * Hiidgt flmihed angrily. "OtmipllmentnTy to un. Imi't U. mania? I am sttrs w have done our best - " liiiirli an ulio llntontvl 1o what ''i ill!'- Hrookton- who '. considered one of the. m<it aimmlng men nhout town, bin whom I pentoriKlly dinllke intontiely-wa* rr>lating to her acixnu the ralllnga of tho liow. Madgo tmw m before iilie ohoen to no- tice me; at loaet. I divined that from the mi. i Interent ehe began to take In Brockton's conversation. Hhe knew I did not like i In. num. ;inil she alwayn took a malicioux pleasure In being specially gra<'imin to men I did not like. Even now, when I look hack, I cannot pretend to 'undenvlaud Madge\< motiveH. Th.-vt hhe> hid a iii.iinc for almcot everything utie did I have ve>ry ii.ttle doubt, except on cKx^asloiiH when her fenllng* carried her away. But he did not allow that to happen very often. Hhn wat fouir-and-twenty, and consider- ed one of th* most f <> cinittuiir women in I inlon au odd eerian of nontr.idlctions, daring In si..-.,-h. but Irreuroachahle In conduct, a coquette to her finger-tips, and yet .it tlmcn bluntly Incere: far too cyni- cal In her vie-we, and yet believing with i.ii" most wholei-oouled l<iy:ilty in thoee to whom her tnmt was given. I cannot lay ci.iiin t undemtandfng Uadge, and It would Hike ri-.iuin of paper to reourd my varied ImpreMilons of her changing, com- plex nature. A to her apperance. *be wan conildsred a great beauty, but I suppoee that hud bo IICKM pl.ilii M'ea Ixirimer, without any money, she would liuve been esteemed ine.n-.lv ft pretty, Intenmttng-looking girl. HT skin was vry olnr and fair, but she powdered so itu.-klv that, everybody laid rouged, sl*i. which wae a calumny, had an abundance of pretty brown hair, hut she. pfitronUed eomo detest n.ble Krench hair-dreener, who frliatMl and fluf- fed, and glided and bronied It until I waa never euro of the color it would )" from one season to another; n straight, finely modeled noes, with something al- most dledalnful and Insolent about tin- 1 i . i " I , , , i , , curve at th. tip of It, dark .eyebrow., I ^ ^."l m ^ n The^M^Tt"^ > \**, he W SS .graduated SO high byn jiiHt gone hv. with a cre.m -colored 'P "> his class that he was oomnus- ten was among those detained after the regular hours. It was there, however, that the soldier blood of his ancestors first showed itself, for in the closing years of the civil war great bodie* of soldiers were often encam,ped in the vacant lots sur- rounding the old Bchoolhousc, and he recognized the call of destiny in his earliest years. It was in 1875 that ihe bdy first few hour* " I became fired with an ambition to go "Where are you golngF Mima, t.hen- to the military acadeniy. "Don't be ailly, Mxdgs. I hats a Ixindon season. You know how And haven't I been good, doing everything and golni want to Wrnxford bowing to you. What a frightful hat! And htvr complexion I- n't made up to tone with it one bit. Ton academy he won a reputation as a "digger," because ho was at great art'ota. Adrian, BA.'s. and A.R A.'. k;. ifn/li, M >n.rlv nn*l 1at*> Th pf rvnd all that. ou.U to t.ihe I'dvnntage oi J 1 * . BtUd; ear !- V . and **' your uncinl poaltlon to RO nbont giving ; fectiveness of this was &hown when, with tlhnt crook in tho middln which physl- ti . tell ns meon wit: rather a largs month, wsll sh'ped, but a llttln hard when clowdi a prettily curvs.1 chin and throat, and dainty little ear* Hitch were Madge's olnlmn to beauty. aiMfil to a nhnpely figure not tall enough for strncn. and a nice, oft banil, uniiRiiallv ot'-ong for n girl. Her voice wao altogether e'harmlng: It pint TOII at your e.ise. or It chilled your hlood hy \\r, fronting qiiall- i tied, at ftn inviu-r'u will, nnd there WIM a I touch of th chill on when he (tredted I mr> iifii' 1 . 1 1 had ttli.iken hando with Aunt I,I,IIIHI,. iin, uiPiiinii'liMl l->'ilnntr 1 t'l old ldy who Tt hy Mde'n ids 'ind In whoim rhtrp, hawklike Ic it in OB tliero lurked little, if any. u-r of her d.-iugh- tr' comsllnrwt. t har>4 Urookton left the carriage al- ioncd a second lieutenant in th-fl Engineer Corps, which is open only completion, olearly meant for b'ack. un- dr a corn-flower-bluo hmt. And Ii^dy Marchmont U in:nh- up corlse with a vioux TCW ii Htiime. A few eiftne-Mry leoMxie to tihoae students graduated with In the art of making-tip wouM come us a boon ami a hlfvinlng t<i o many w<impn, ri<l prevent iw. who know applo grtwn from vnrn'e, from having our eyes M on cdsro. Well, Adr!*n. what. -w:na it 5-011 were Baying about ro<ng away? And \\liirh!- are. you honndP" "Out of the pale of elvll!M.io<i fo- . <1av c-r two. I want to fort th Eow. and the ono-a,, and nurling.linm. Usdy Murchmont's make-up, and "And me?" Not von. r>f cnnr? Imt ^elf. Mfflv collftrf*^ f rock -<v\ B tpd p lf ." "And piny at being an artist?" and my t-he highest markings. In 1801 he was promoted to the grade of captain and placed in charge of tho improvement of the Tennessee Ilivcr. for the next, four years. HP wan the- chi^f engineer, of the Firnt Army Corps iu the tenant-colonel, and in the same year was appointed chairman and chief engineer of the Isthmian Ca- nal Commission. He received his commission as a colonel in 1909. Colonel Goethala married Miss Rodman, of New Bedford, Mass., in 1884. They have two sons, one of whom recently was graduated near the head of his class at West Point and now is serving in the canal zone, under his father, as a second lieutenant of engineers. Now that his big job is nearly over he is being sought after by many citie and corporations. He hns been offered the position of New York's Chief of Police, but is not likely to take it. He 'will either remain as Governor of the Canal Zone or go north to build the Alaska railway in all proba- bility. TRIALS OP A CLERUVMAN. Sonic Laughable Incidents urc Here Recorded. Do not be a parson unless you are blessed with a strong sense of humor and a thick hide, advises an English clergyman in Pearson's Weekly. A parson's duty is to visit his flock. If he does not, great is the grumbling. If he does, he is snubbed. The snubs mix nicely with the welcomes, to prevent you from being puffed up. The following is one of the neatest of them : I was asked by a friend who had been offered a living near me to go and see the vicarage and church and report. I did eo. and the clerk showed me round. As we neared the end, he turned to ine, and said : "Be you our new parson, sir, if I may make so bold?" I assured him that I was not. "F be main glad to hear that, sir," he said, with relief. "We've always had good uns so far !" In a scattered parish, I called up- on an old couple about tea time. "Would you like a cup of tea?" the housewife asked. I confessed that I should like it very much. The dear old soul prepared one, and kept apologizing because she had no jam or cake. I assured her that it did not matter in the least. "Well, sir," she said, brightening, "after all. 'tisn't as if you waa one of them- that feed high. Anyone can see that!" < One more. A friend of mine had got a job for a man who had been for a long time out of work. I guessed he was getting prettv shab- by, so I looked up a suit, we were much of a size, and took it round. The man's wife took it, and I waited in t-he room, ready to be overwhelm- ed with thanks. 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