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The rooe was

ensconced in the s Strange to say, the youth of Plattville were not

present under protest, as their fellows of awell understood by the young of great cities to have

instructive tendencies The boys ca It was an event Soony (next to hair-cutting in suffering) of having

their ears washed Conscious of parental eyes, they fronted the public

with boyhood's professional expressionlessness, though they coe of their own, and each group

was a hot-bed of furtive gossip and sarcastic comment Seated in the

s, they kept out what sht otherwise have

stolen in to co with perspiration, arniture of stiffly-starched collars,

those who had not cultivated chin beards to obviate such arduous

necessities of po up under the added anxiety

of cravats However, they sat outwardlya quiet solace of tobacco--not that they sallantry of Carlow County forbid--nor were there anywhere visible

tokens of the co ministrations of nicotine to violate the eye of

etiquette It is an art of Plattville

Suddenly there was a huray oldwomen passed up the aisle to the