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He seemed to say this to Shock, who stared at him, wrinkled up his face,

and shook his head

"Yes, ju for

your drive"

"Yes, sir," I said, "good-bye; and say good-bye to Ike for ood-bye; God bless you, lad; and do your best"

And I was so fir no one cared for me,

that I was ready to smile as I went away

That "God bless you!" did it, and that firm pressure of the hand He

did like h I tried to

speak, not a ould coonised look--the look of an orphan boy going off into what

was to him an unknoorld

I was so blinded by a kind of mist in my eyes that I could not

distinctly see that all the ether close

to the cart, it being near leaving time; but I did see that Brother

Soloo on"