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fool"

"He is a fool to look at you Do get a little wisdoain as the doctor

entered the house

I knew he and I understood each other; and though he reat kindness for

him So I met him with frank kindness now The doctor walked

about the roos; and

then said suddenly, "Do you remember old Molly Skelton?"

"Certainly What of her?"

"She is dying, poor creature"

"Does she know I am here?" I asked

"I have not told her"

"Would she like to see me, do you think?" I said, with an

uneasy consciousness that I nise you-I presume there is nobody else she

would so like to see As in reason there ought not"

"Can you takeanother way This afternoon I

will take you, if you will go Will you go?"

"If you will be so good as to take me"

"I will come for you then at four o'clock"

That ride I have reason to reh the month was aluishes June shone through the air and

sparkled on the hills With clear bright outlines the Catskill

range stretched away right and left before us, whenever our

road brought us in view of it; fulness of light on the sunny

slopes, soft depth of shadow on the others, proclai the

clear purity of the atmosphere The blue of the sky, the fresh