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We drank all the wine, and Mr Puain to keep Joseph up to the mark (I don't knohat mark), and to

render me efficient and constant service (I don't knohat service) He

also made known tokept his secret wonderfully well, that he had always said of me,

"That boy is no common boy, and mark me, his fortun' will be no common

fortun'" He said with a tearful s to

think of now, and I said so too Finally, I went out into the air, with

a di unwonted in the conduct of the

sunshine, and found that I had slu taken any account of the road

There, I was roused by Mr Pu way

down the sunny street, and was estures for me to

stop I stopped, and he came up breathless

"No, my dear friend," said he, when he had recovered wind for speech

"Not if I can help it This occasion shall not entirely pass without

that affability on your part--May I, as an old friend and isher?

May I?"

We shook hands for the hundredth ti