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housekeeper Mr Crawford has a box to the fight to-night, and he

thought perhaps you'd like to go along with us"

"A boxing-hts; and fast boys, too Both Irish"

"Really, I shall be glad to go"

"Webb?"

"Yes"

"Never use that word 'really' to me It's un-Irish"

Thomas heard a chuckle before the receiver at the other end clicked on

the hook What a father this hearty, kindly, humorous Irishman would

have made for a son!

In London Tho the season he went to the opera twice, to the -ed to a workingmen's club not far from where he lived; an empty

warehouse, converted into a hall, with a platform in the center, froued; and in

one corner was a fair gyht, for the sued Thomas rarely

missed these exhibitions; he seriously considered it a part of his

self-acquired education What Englishman lives who does not? Brains

and brawn make a man (or a country) invincible

At seven prorew He was shown into the grill, where he was pleasantly

greeted by his host and Crawford and introduced to a young e, a Mr Forbes Tho along faard to his

straw hat, however, till, after dinner, he saw that his co their Panamas