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The strenuousness of the fall can almost wiped these events fro home his points to the

man on the street and in the workshop Much of it was dreary and

edly at it It seeht Mr Preston, Dick and Ellery tried to put

fire into soy little hall-full of men To Percival's surprise,

Norris developed a plain common-sense variety of eloquence that appealed

to his audiences quite as much as did Dick's ht to some well-known condition But they

hammered and pounded and reasoned and explained; they tried e except bribes to win their ground, until their

speeches began to sound autorew

hoarse, and they moved like men in a dream

"If there were one day more of this," Dick said to Norris, as they

traht before election, and felt a certain

restfulness in the Noveraph to grind outI

say sounds like torow hollow The worst of it is it robs s with

Madeline"

"Um!" said Dick "When are you to be married?"

"About Christ