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"In my van"

"And where is that?"

"Yonder!" and he pointed to a gayly-painted caravan that stood

near by "'e's asleep now, but if you'd like to take a peep at

'im--"

"I should," said I Whereupon the fellow ledhih

confined, onderfully neat and clean, with curtains at the

open s, a rug upon the floor, and an ornamental; brass lamp

pendent from the roof At the far end was a bed, or rather,

berth, curtained with chintz, and upon this bed, his chubby face

pillowed upon a di up fro over

him, I surprised a look upon the hardened face--a tenderness that

seemed very much out of place

"Nice and fat, ain't 'e?" said the er

"Yes"

"Ah--and so 'e should be, Ja to Lewis--I calls 'im Lewis, for 'twere at

Lewisha it was, but, by