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"Doesn't that thrill you, boy?" said Meredith, joining the group about

Harkless's chair "Those fellows are Sopho a fossil Father Abraham?"

A banjo chattered on the lawn to the north, and soon afro alone out 'ere"

Then a piano across the street sounded the dearthful harmonies of Chopin's

Funeral March

"Youa spark over the

rail in the ash of his cigar, "Chopping or Chevalier"

"Chopin, my friend," said the lady who had attached herself to Harkless

She tapped Toraciously corrective

"Thank you, Miss Hinsdale," he answered, gratefully "And as I, perhaps,

had better say, since otherwise there ht be a pause and I am the host,

we have a wide selection In addition to what is provided at present, I

predict that within the next ten irl who lives two

doors south will favor us with the Pilgriement,

break down in the middle, and drift, into 'Rastus on Parade,' while a

double quartette of entle in our own back yard"