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"You read it, Ross," I said "I don't believe I feel hearty enough to-day

Read the ite?" inquired Mr Schofield

"For the poe smile, Ross settled the sheets in order, and

exhibited tokens of that pleasant nevousness incident to appearing before

a critical audience, arht

thereat scheme down

there," he volunteered a

in full, in as , and

it'll please the public, too; it gives 'eit I reckon there's two sticks of jest them extry words

alone"

"Go on," said the forean to read, aa puckered brow and at ti, as his results had already cooled a

little, and he found his hand difficult to decipher "Here's the first,"

he said: "'The large and handsome, fawn-colored, two years and one-half year old

Jersey of Frederick Bibshaw Jones, Esquire----'"

The forelad to

know that Jersey's age and color! But go on"

"'--Frederick Bibshaw Jones, Esquire,'" pursued his assistant, with some