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"You know that heady young chap out there will go to the bad if somebody don't pull hio wanderin' off to-night with only fifty cents in his pocket, tryin' to find some place to put his head in out of the stor more for him You're thinkin' how much more comfortable it will be to sit dozin' in your chair, and not have any stranger botherin' round But I'll head you off agin in spite of your cussed, y, selfish, old, shrivelled-up soul, that would like to take its ease even though the hull world was a-groanin' outside the door A-a-h!"

Having ainst whom he seemed to hold such an inveterate spite--what he must do, he arose and called to Haldane: "What are you doin' out there in the rain?"

"I'll be through in a few minutes"

"I don't want the rest done till mornin'"

"It will pay neither of us for me to come back here to do what's left"

"It may pay you, and as to its payin' ether--I wish to do ot down to charity yet"

"Well, have your oay, then; I s'pose other folks have a right to have it as well as h"

By the time Haldaue finished his task the clouds had settled heavily all around the horizon, hastening forward an early and gloo to fall steadily His mood comported with the aspect of sky and earth, and weariness, the fast ally of despondency, aided in giving a leaden hue to the future and a leaden weight, to his thoughts The prospect of trudging arain to his previous squalid resting-place at No 13, whose only attraction consisted in the fact that no questions were asked, was so depressing that he decided to ask Mr Growther for permission to sleep in the corner of his woodshed

"Come in," shouted Mr Growther, in response to his knock at the door

"I'h," said Haldane laconically

"Well, I ain't," replied Mr Growther; "you wouldn'tthat cheer till I am, would you?"

Haldane found the cushioned arly to his taste, and he felt that in such co the old man berate himself or any one else for an hour or more