Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1893 — Page 7

- -- AN IDYL OMONOLULU. A Bold Stroke for a Husband. Written for This Paper. BY LEON LEWIS.

CHAPTER 111 Con tinned. “I will now tell you who the young man is,” said Bullet, drawing his chair nearer to his daughter. “His name is Ralph Kemplin.” » "Ralph Kemplin? Any relation to * the Kempllns in whose ship you used to sail?” “Yes, the only son of that Kemplin. I see that I have not talked to you in vain about my old employer and his family. This youth is now on his way around the world. Here is a great bundle of papers by which his Identity is perfectly established. Ido not know exactly how he got into his present fix, but I am going to town soon to make inquiries, and in the meantime I can guess about how it was ” "In what kind of a fix is he?” "He has been waylaid—probably with an eye to robbery, as his pocketbook’is gone, his watch, and so on—and in the struggle he has received a blow on the head that has utterly destroyed his memory. You've heard of similar cases; at least the medical books are full of them. He don’t know anything about himself and his history. It’s all a blank to him—his past, who he is and where he is. He don’t even know his own name!” Alma looked shocked. "He’s an idiot, then?” she murmured. “No, nothing of the kind. He has simply lost fits memory, forgotten how to read, forgotten his friends—even his sweetheart, if he happens to have any. He has the same tastes and passions, however, as before his injury. He is, in fact, the same man as before, except in so far as regards memory and its various offices and connections." "How odd!” ejaculated Alma. “He must be a sort of grown-up baby!” “The very thing!” returned Bullet. "That expression describes him perfectly. Yet he still has the airs and manners of a cultivated gentleman, doing from habit and instinct what he has been accustomed to do by reason.” He narrated briefly how Kulu had fallen in with Ralph, and all the circumstances—so far as known—under which the sufferer had come into his keeping. “And, now that ho is here,” concluded Bullet, “what a field of action is opened to you! In three or four da vs tho poor fellow will bo physically well, but in all probability his past will continue a blank to him. We will give him a new name, and you must teach him his letters, and get him to reading again, and study geography and history with him —in a word, make a man of him upon his new basis. And, while you are thus engaged, if you are as able as I think you are, you will at least win the young man’s gratitude, and most likely his affection, and so become his wife. And once you are his wife, I will speedily make a pretense of discovering who and where his father is, and restore them to each other. As you and your husband will be the sole heirs of the merchant’s vast wealth, you become a great lady at one jump. Now, what do you say to the project?” “I think it can be carried out,” answered Alma, as a look of eager resolution mantled hes face. “At least, I will do all I can to make a success of it.” A few details established a full understanding and harmony between tho father and daughter, and they awaited with impatience the moment of Ralph's awakening to enter upon their nefarious conspiracy. At the end of two or three hours a stir in the little bedroom announced that the sufferer was awake, and in an instant Bullet was hovering over him, “You feel better now, sir?” “Oh, so much better.” “Do you feel well enough to see my daughter? She’s to help me take care of you.” Ralph assented, and Alma at once entered. Bullet introduced her to the patient, who greeted her with mechanical.politeness. “You can’t recall your name yet, can you?” asked Bullet. The sufferer contracted his brows painfully a few moments, and shook his head sadly. “We shall have to give you a new name, sir,” pursued Bullet. “Suppose we call you Ashley Benning, after as old friend of mine?” Ralph nodded a weary assent. “Ashley Benning it is, then.” A few minutes the father and daughter conversed with their patient, and then they proceeded to their little kitchen, intent upon making him a nice broth and a gruel. ~ “You see that he is started upon his new life,” muttered Bullet, rubbing his hands gleefully together. “All trace of Ralph Kemplin is lost until we choose to find it. This young man is simply Ashley Benning, and his life dates from the present. He is, in fact, an entirely new creation. All we have to do is to be secret and cautious, and keep all knowledge ofchim from everybody until you are his wife, and we shall then find ourselves on the very . pinnacle of happiness and fortune! The first great step is taken!” It was, indeed. It only remained to be seen what would come of it. CHAPTER IV. RALPH IN HIS NEW CHARACTER. Beneath a cocoanut tree, upon the slope of a gentle declivity overlooking the little valley in which the Bullet promises were situated, reclined Ralph Kemplin in an attitude of dejected thoughtfulness, toward tho close of one of those dreamy and beautiful days by which the neighborhood of Honolulu is r distinguished. A “Strange, strange!” was the sighing ejaculation that at brief intervals broke from him. Tho sound of light footsteps, accompanied by the rustling of a woman's dress, at last aroused him from his sad and profound musings, and he gathered himself up into a sitting posture in time to receive the daughter of the old ex-sailor. Miss Alma Bullet. The girl was dressed cocuettishly, and it could have been seen at a glance that she had acquired a great many new charms and graces since her ac- & quaintance with Ralph, just as meaner things are polished by contact- with better. “Ah, here you are, Mr. Benning?” she said, with a forced smile and an equally forced assumption pf lightheartedness. “I wondered what had become of you. I was afraid you might have wandered off into some danger. “Oh, I know too much for that." returned Ralph, with a bitter curling of his lips. "I have been taking a long walk among the hills ” “And yet you know that I do not want you to ao so far upon these lonely

rambles,” interrupted Alma, with a look of keen anxiety. “Well, why not?” "Because — because there may bo enemies looking for you in some of those lonely ravines," declared the girl, with tho air of having been forced to say something she would have preferred to keep secret. “I dare say some of the—the native young men may be jealous of you. ” “Jealous of me? Impossible! They know that I am only a poor waif upon whom your father and you have kindly taken pity. They know that lam only a pensioner upon your bounty and not a suitor for your hand, Miss Bullet.” The girl sighed, as she tore in pieces a bunch of wild flowers she had gathered. “They may not know all this—those native young men who used to try to pay me attention,’’shemurmured; “and some of them, I know, are very ugly and malicious, and that is why I have so often begged you not to wander away so far, and why I have asked you to'be } always on your guard. You have been , ten or twelve miles, I suppose?”.. “Yes—or more. How can I. help moving ? I am too worried and excited to remain motionless. Finding myself a little tired upon my return from this long ramble, I dropped into this pleasant place to rest. ” "Shall we read a little more to-day?” asked Alma, after waiting a few moments for Ralph to continue his account of himself. “No, no —thank you! I am tired of geography, tired of history, tired of even your ancient Greeks and Romans !" “Then perhaps you don’t wish me to remain here at all?" breathed the girl, sadly, while a tear welled up slowly ' into each eye. “Yes, I do—of course, of course,” returned Ralph, quickly, looking as if his conscience smote him for those tears. “Sit down here beside me. I am always glad to see you, as you ought to know by this time. Come when you will, your coming is always welcome. How could it be otherwise after all you have done for me ?” Sending a quick but comprehensive glance in every direction around, as if to assure herself that no intruders were near, tho girl seated herself upon the velvety sward near Ralph, and promptly recovered her calmness and j all the studied charms of her voice and manner. “It's no wonder you are tired of reading and studying,” she murmured. “How constantly wo have been poring over books during the time you have been here! You were only a few hours in learning the letters of the alphabet, and since then we have exhausted the whole stock of books upon the,island. Even tho missionaries have little more to lend us. But you must certainly feel that you are paid for all this trouble. You know almost everything —all that is usually taught tn the schools, and all that is to be learned by an extended course of select reading.” “I am certaiqly improved from the ignorant creature 1 was when you took me in hand,” returned Ralph, with a sad smile. “Then everything was so strange to me, as if I had just dropped down from the skies. I had no idea of the ocean, the continents, the islands, the stars, or the planets. London, Paris, Rome, New York, San Francisco, America, Europe, Asia—these are all names which were then only empty sounds to me. But now, Miss Bullet, thanks to your constant and generous assistance, I am like other men ” “Only so nyich nobler and wiser than the majority of thelfi!” breathed Alma, with an earnestness whifh rendered any doubt of her sincerity impossible. Ralph smiled again, and rejoined: “You flatter me, but I know how to excuse your flattery. The teacher is always partial to the scholar. But I am so far like other men, at least, that I am now prepared to bear my part in the great battle of life; that I can look out intelligently upon the scenes around us; that I can reason and act in all and any given circumstances; and that I am now capable of considering all and any problems—oven the great mystery of myself." “And it is of this ‘great mystery’ that you have been puzzling again, no doubt?” murmured Alma, with an uneasiness she could not entirely conceal. “Yes; it is of this horrible secret that I have been puzzling again,” affirmed Ralph, his rich voice freighted’ with unrest and desolation. “Who was I before your father gave me this name of Ashley Benning? Where did I come from? What was my former name, my race, my kindred?” “Father surmises that you may have been a sailor upon some ship,” said Alma, with averted face. “A sailor? Impossible! The same idea occurred to me, and I have been and looked at a hundred sailors one after another. lam not like them. You need only look at my hands. Is that the hand of a sailor?” Ttj,e girl glanced at the hand extended toward her.-so white, so soft-skin-ned, so small and delicate, and the utter absurdity of comparing such a member with the avetage hand of a sailor, with its thick, tar-begrimed skin and its horny callosities, was at once apparent. “Another thing,” added Ralph, “if you and your father had had the least belief of my having been a sailor, you would have taught me to boa sailor, and not have adopted the plan of making me a man of books—a scholar—a learned gentleman.” The fair conspirator turned pale at the force of this reasoning, and for a foment could not entirely hide her confusion. “I -was not a sailor, therefore, as you can see at a glance,” resumed Ralph, with a promptness which showed how much he was preoccupied by tho problem of his former existence. “But what was I?” Alma hardly knew what to answer, but soon replied: y “Why do you ask? Is it not manifestly impossible that any of these harrowing questions should ever receive a solution? Father and I have passed, in review a hundred times possibly theory of your past history, but all are equally unsatisfactory and all are equally far from any definite conclusion.” “It occurred to me, of course, that I must have come in one of the ships which, about that time, entered the harbor.” Ralph, thoughtfully, “and I have accordingly been making inquiries." t The pallor deepened on Alma's face. “You have?” she gasped. “Yes, I have been making inquiries. Yesterday and to-day I have made two long’visits to Honolulu." ■■■ -p a

The Start given by Alma at thia declaration partook largely of affright. She stole several sly glances in quick succession at her companion. “Well?" she finally faltered. “Well, I have had my labor for my pains. I have learned all I can in regard to the Hhipw which were in port at the date in Question, and also piade every possible inquiry in regard to tho persons aboard of those ships, but I have not been able to find the least light in that quarter. It is impossible to say who I formerly was, or how I reached this island." , “Or even when,” suggested Alma, still averting her face. “You may have been on the island months or years before we found you. You may have been afflicted with with some terrible mental disease. In any case, whoever you may have been, and whatever your parentage, it is reasonable to think that you may have l»ecn deliberately abandoned by your friends, and that they have taken such good care to cover up their tracks that you never, never will bo able to get the least trace of them.” This view of tho case was not a new one. Ralph had often contemplated it before, but he had never been able to consider it calmly. It was, in fact, the most painful of all the theories he had ever formed concerning himself, and its horrors now kept him silent. “And such being the common-sense view of the matter,” resumed Alma, “why should you worry yourself to death with a mystery that can never be cleared up? Is it 'not better to let the dead past alone and turn your attention to tho living present?” “This is the very course I propose to take,” declared Ralph with a longI drawn sigh. “It would be both foolish 1 and wicked, of course, loftne to spend I my life in an endeavor to answer questions which are from their very nature unanswerable. But <me of the most pressing duties of the present' is for me to cease to be an object of charity—to avoid taxing your goodness and that of your father any further—in short, to adopt some work or profession that will insure me a support and render me independent of others.” "What! you are tired of us? You would leave us?” cried Alma, turning Sale again and looking a world of tenor reproaches. “It is not that, Miss Bullet,” said Ralph, with gentle gravity. “Among all the thousands -of truths I have 1 learned during the past few weeks, I have not failed to learn that the first principle of manhood is pecuniary independence: and the time has arrived for me to carry this truth into practice.” Alma mused painfully a few moments, and then turned her most effective glances upon her companion, her features brightening. “Very well,” she said, “I see no objections to your being independent, since such is vour desire. Father will sell you some land, which you can pay for by your labor, or he will endeavor to procure for you a position of some I kind in Honolulu. But whatever you do, bear in mind that father and I are your true friends, that we have your happiness at heart, and that we are anxious to do all we can for vou.” “You have both been singularly kind to me,” returned Ralph, as he leaned forward and took the girl's hand in his own, pressing it gratefully. “To you, especially. I owe more than my life. Rest assured that I shall always be grateful.” While he was uttering these declarations, with the’hearty honesty characteristic of him, the dark face of an intruder, a Kanaka, was suddenly raised into view from behind a Clump of bushes a few rods in the rear of the qouple, and a clenched hand was shaken menacingly at them, while a pair of savage eyes looked at them with the raging fires of jealousy. Neither of the couple detected this intrusion. “But enough of all this for to-day,” continued Ralph, relinquishing the hand of the girl and arising. “I see your father in tho distance, returning’ from Honolulu, and you will doubtless wish to meet him, as he was to bring you some new fashions,” and the young Chicagoan smiled. “List's walk in that direction.” The sun was now setting in a flood of glorv, and by the time the couple had finished a pleasant chat with Bullet the shadows of evening were falling densely around them. They had finally separated, the old sailor going to see hia man Kulu, Ralph retiring to his room,, and Alma seating herself in the doorway of the cottage, when the dark-: faced Kanaka, of whom we have spoken, advanced toward the girl with a briskness that startled her. She arose hastily. Don't go,” called the intruder, in a voice in which sullen anger was predominant. “It’s me—Keeri. I must have a talk with you.” (TO BE CONTINUED.; Beneficial Results. Household economy is made a study in the Kansas State agricultural cob lege. This is what is said: The homes of the land receive much better food than before the girls were given thq study of household economy. It is not better in materials, perhaps, but the infinite variety Os combinations and ol preparations will incite a girl to exl periments of various kinds after she learns the foundation truths about thd combinations of foods. Then, too, she learns definitely some methods besides those her mother used, and any one id better for using the good ideas of thq people than being limited to those evolved by but one brain. The students take pride in doing cooking at home after they have practiced in class, and their delight in their success often gives them cheer and comfort through the whole day. Almost a King. The. Earl of Derby, who died recently, was seriously considered as t candidate for the throne of Greece after the retirement of King Otto, the Bavarian, in 1862. At the time he was Lord Stanley, a member of the House of Commons and one of the iriost intimate friends of Lord Beaconsfield, then still Benjamin Disraeli, This interesting historical event first became published two years ago, through Froude, the English' historian, who found letters referring to it in the correspondence between Beaconsfield and Mrs. Brydges. Although Disraeli favored the candidacy of Stanley be expressed the belief in a letter, dated December 9, that the Stanleys would prefer Knousley to the Parthenon and Lancashire to the plains of Attica. — Philadelphia Times. _ - '■ WOOD pulp is rapidly becoming one of the most universally used of manufactured articles. Not only is it found available for making many of the necessaries and conveniences of man's life, aside from newspapers, but it is also appearing in artistic coffins in which to bury him. It is interesting to note in this connection that there are very few areas of spruce lumber in the United States west of the Adirondacks. The light of the sun is equal to 5,563 wax candles held at the distance of one foot from the eye. It would require 600,000 full moons to produce a day as brilliant as one of cloudless sunshine. The mariner’s compass was known

, '« TOO VALUABLE TO SELL. (There Property Cao ■oorcely He Boafcht for lx>ve or Mouey. There arc twenty or thirty great business centers in the city of London where property is of almost equal uaiue and rated exceedingly high. To buy the four acres now occupied by the Bank of England and liounded by Princess, Th read needle, and Lothberry streets and Bartholomew lane it would be necessary to produce a well certified check for the snug sum ?f #14,000,000. Ten million dollars per acre is the valuation made not long ago on a lot in the vicinity of the bank, and a lease was made on that basis. Picadllly, Strand, Fleet street, Charing Cross, and other business streets in London have corners worth from $50,000 to $100,600 a front foot. The owners of this property, being as a rule men or estates of great wealth, are satisfied with 3to per cent, on their Investments, while here the owners of such property expect 6to 8 per cent, consequently land is a great deal higher in the business center of London than it is in Chicago. I ngtice that on the second-hand business streets in London land is held about twice as high as.lt Is here. In the suburbs of London a great deal of property has been sold out by the lot by methods similar to ours. London is fast becoming a great city of home owners. The managers of large estates that were held for a number of years upon leases made on low valuation concluded that it would be better to subdivide the property and sell it out in lots and reinvest the money. This has been done to a great extent in all parts of the city of London and probably accounts for the wonderful increase in population during the last fifty years. Small buildings, such as we sell for S3OO to SI,OOO, are sold in London for almost twice that sum. i In Paris little property is offered I for sale; in fact a sign board is a rar- i ity, although occasionally you see a ' piece of property on the back streets I for lease. It is very hard to get any | information about property in Paris. ' Most of it is held by owners who are j wealthy and refuse to sell, but on the ' principal streets the rent of the stores is high, considering their size, the stores being very shallow and small. Prices are no doubt higher, the rental value considered, than in Chicago. In Venice scarcely any property is offered for sale. The citv has de-■ creased in population, but there seem ’ to be no vacant houses, and the only ; way I could ascertain the value of property was to figure out the rents on the business streets, which were higher, all things considered, than in Chicago. In the old city of Rome rents on two or three of the principal I streets are very high, and, the stores j being small, it would seem that a i small income must be produced ac-; cording to the value held upon the land. In some directions from the center of Rome buildings are being erected, and land for an ordinary residence'Jot, in a rather poor locality, compared with any 7 of our suburbs, would be about 20 or 40 per cent, higher than the price we ask. Even in Cairo, Egypt, the price of lots along the business streets would astonish an American. I asked the proprietor of an English store called ; the Manchester, located near Shepheard’s Hotel, what rent he paid. The store was about twenty-five feet front by about forty feet deep with a small annex half as large. He answered that he paid about $2,000 per annum. It did not look to be worth over SSOO. Cairo has a population of i bout 350,000. and there are some stores in the Turkish quarters where the bazaars are, about four feet square—room enough for the proprietor to sit tailor fashion and sell his wares to passers-by—which bring • about SSO a month. Even in Jerusalem a boom is in pi ogress, on account of the riilroad having been extended to the city, and lots were selling for SSOO to SBOO I that we would consider high at $200; and I discovered in nearly every city I visited, even in old Athens, which is rapidly increasing in population ; under the administration of King [ George, that lots were selling on the outskirts for S3OO to s4oo.—Chicago Post. SAVED BY HIS NOSE. It Wasn’t Much in the Beauty Line, but It Was the Only One He Had. “Gentlemen,” said the man from Cheboygan County, as he leaned back in his chair, “no doubt you have all remarked my nose. It is remarked wherever 1 go. I have seen three or four other noses like it in my travels, but I think I can truthfully say that it is the only 7 one ot its kind in the State of Michigan. Wine and erysipelas did the business for me. I have had it frost-bitten three oi; four times, besides, and it’s no use for me to pretend that it isn’t a lulu of a nose. There are times when I'd give SIO,OOO to exchange it for a fair-look-ing nasal organ, and there are other times when I feel the greatest spirit of friendliness for it. It is just about three years ago now that my nose saved my life ” We expressed our surprise and interest and asked for the story, and after tenderly caressing his landmark the man observed: “It was down in Tennessee I had gone to bed for the night at a hotel \ in a country town, and being tired out I was soon sound asleep. The first thing I knew the door of my room was kicked in and a dozen men piled onto me. They dragged me down stairs without giving me time to dress and without answering any questions, and I was hustled through the front door and out upon the I street There were a dozen men there j on horseback, and one of them pro- I duced a noosed rope and flung it over my head. There was a crowd of about fifty altogether, and they run me a quarter of a mile to a tree and made ; ready for a hanging. It was only when they had given me live minutes in which to pray that I could make my voice heard. 1 inquired what it all meant, and one of the crowd called out: “ ‘lf that’s Jim Burbanks he’s got a new voice on him! Let’s have a look at his face!’ ‘ 'They lighted matches and got a view of my phiz, and the fellow who had called out before now exclaimed: “'Hold on. boys! We’ve got the wrong man ! He looks like Jim in

everything but that nose I Ye gods! what a nose ! He ought to be willing to be hung for carrying around such g thing, but inebbe he isn’t. Here,, now—who are you ?’ “It turned out that Sim Burbanks had shot a man at a country store a dozen miles away. They said we looked as much alike as twin brothers —all but our noses. They had tracked the murderer in our direction, and the landlord had given me away to the pursuers. They treated me right royally when they discovered their mistake, but I was assured over and over again that but for my nose I should have been pulled up to the limb.”—Detroit Free Press. A Magnanimous Dog. A big Newfoundland was go>ng peaceably along when a cross-grained cur began snapping at him and snarling savagely. This started one or two other uogs, who joined in the attack. The big dog took no notice until compelled to do so in self-defense. Then he turned and sent the crowd of persecutors flying in all directions; all except the ring-leader, who fell sprawling in the middle of the street, and was beginning to get the drubbing he deserved, when things took a very unexpected turn. A cable-car came dashing along down the hill, with clanging bell, right upon the dogs. Nobody is expected to warn dogs of danger, and so the car was almost upon them when a policeman, who noticed the encounter,. cried, ' Get out!” The big dog saw the danger at once and sprang aside, but his late assailant was on his back and too much in dread of punishment to see anything else. There he lay and in a second more would be crushed. The Newfoundland saw the situation’ and after he had partly turned away sprang back in front of the car, seized the cur in his teeth and snatched him, whining and begging for mercy, | out of the very jaws of death. He i laid hit# in the gutter, and then, i as though further retaliation had en- ; tirely escaped his mind, he gave a [ good natured wag or two of his tail and started on up the street, unconI scious that for less heroic deeds than ■ this men wear medals of honor. He was only a dog, but hetaught a lesson to all who stood by.—N. Y. World. The Shy Man. One oi the characters in a modern novel is made to say, “I love a shy : man. He is getting so scarce.” | Perhaps that is why he is so really ! delicious. When he blushes palpably, but without looking awkward, one is drawn toward him by a certain sen- ' timent of affinity, and so long as he is just shy enough, but not too shy, I he wins more and more upon one. To draw a really shy man out of : his shyness is a pleasing task, and ' the more so as he is generally en-’ ' chanted to give expression to the ( thoughts and ideas that he usually keeps locked fast away within himself. One comes upon a stray jewel or two now and then in such cases in the shape of an unexpected thought that astonishes the discover because it seems so different from the person from whom it emanates. I assure you 1 think shy men are sometimes very charming, but then ; one must be a little bit shy one’s self in order to appreciate them. Do you know any nice ones, and do you know that they come out of their shell in a tete-a-tete, and not always then, so there is a pleasing element of uncertainty about them which adds to the interest they inspire?—London Truth. The Only Untaxed People. Hibbert’s Gore is the one place in Maine where taxes are unknown. Only six families reside there —forty persons in all. The Gore comprises i 300 acres, bounded by Waldo, Knox, and Lincoln Counties, and by some mistake was omitted by the engineers when the counties tfere laid out. Having no connection with any bounty, and never having been organized as a town or plantation, tne residents of the Gore neither pay taxes nor vote. They build their own roads, however, and send their I children to the schools nedr by. By a special provision ot the statutes the paupers of the Gore are cared for by the oldest’adjoining town, Palermo, but there have been only three pau pers in the last forty years. A Clever Pagan Trick. The hatching of fish by hens is one of the industries ot China, (says the Scientific American). The spawn of the fish is placed inside of an egg shell from which the contents have been blown. After the spawn has been forced into the empty shell—a most delicate operation—the eggs are I placed under the hen. At the proper time the shells are broken in warmed water, in which the fish hatch at once: they are kept in water perfectly pure until large enough to put in the ponds with larger fish. The selling of the spawn is one of the commercial enterprises of the Chinese. Good IXHijnyil for Labor. While men are continually going around complaining of inability to obtain employment, orchardists and vineyardists find great difficulty in ' getting men to work in the fields. Ask a man to work in a vineyard and he says he is a cook or a carpenter. Want him to drive a team and he is a bricklayer or an engineer. Offer him a job at a plow and he is a sawmill man or a shoemaker, £eek a man to do general farm work and you will find plenty of cigar makers and horse shoeraßjbut few who will | milk a cow or ejllop weeds with a hoe. —Fresno, Cat; Expositor. Nobly Doinjj Her Part. I "Your husband is the editor of the ■ Bugle, I believe?” said the neighbor who had dropped in to make a friendly call. j “Yes.” “And as you have qo family and have considerable leisure on your | hands you assist him now and then in his editorial work, I dare say?” "O, yes,” answered the brisk little wife of the young newspaper man, hiding her strawberry-stained fingers under her apron. "I edit nearly al) his inside matter.”—Chicago Tribune. Schoolmaster —Now Robert, can you tell me bow many pints there, i are in a quart? Publican’s Hopeful —Why, yes, sir. One and a half and the froth.

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