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low of the hat, Alvin saw in fancy gilt lett

XON

he reflected. "I never

e holding the sa

ing, stood grinning at Alvin's elbow. "'Spose ye

and then re

aw, for 'NOXON' reads the same

n feet away. His feeling was as if he had grasped a serpent. T

were a fri

s under deep oblig

ou make t

had since I lift Tipperary? I haven't had so much fun sinc

are

hy, at you

his straw hat and bowed wi

do yo

ee bit, wid me f

Pat Murphy?" asked t

cording to his own st

oy seventeen years old that he had sent word to in Ireland to come over and join h

ore of the fashion in this part of the wurruld than in Ti

ere the headgear lay, picked i

when he bounced around the kind leddy'

size too small for the proud new owner, and perched on his crown

d be able to handle his shillaleh inside of a waak and meet his engagement with

of the better headgear would have no trouble in finding it. "And if it's all the same

my name?" asked th

e wurruld and spaking of yersilf? It was yer telling me that me dad was your dad's caretake

But I say, Mike, when d

p in Portland. Thar I had time to ate breakfast and ride in the train to Bath, where I meant to board the steamboat Gardiner. I had half a minute to sprint down the hill t

n him steam away when by waiting half a minut

ed the rist of the way to the home of me parents. I mind dad towld me the same was f

it had slipped my mind, and having been away all day I had no chance to l

ng of their congenial dispositions, nothing was more natural than that they should form a strong liking for each other. They walked side b

ver this road to-night when I found myse

, and then to keep on to Squirrel Island and buy him a pound of 'bacca and to be sure to wa

ke out?" asked

e at Cape Newagen and I should have to walk under water for near two miles or swi

mean by sending you

chu

ging in the same whin he gits the chance. He was so glad to have me wid him that he

mother tell

I couldn't extind the same as far as they had planned for me. Can you suggist something I ki

to think of any

icked the other chap, it was all right and he or mither give me an extra pratie at dinner, but if I was bested, then dad made himself tired using his strap over me back and legs. He's in high

to-night to do with p

f that was knocked skyhigh, and after he's lambasted me till he can't do

in that? It seems to me

they find how they have aboosed me that they'll give me two

ng the summer. A half mile to the south toward Cape Newagen was the more moderate dwelling, during the sultry season, of Chester Haynes, his chum from whom he had parted an hour or two previous to making the acquaintance of Mike Murphy. As they drew near the structure, Mike stepped in front and opened the door, with

evening to you, Mrs. Murphy. You see

a meal with them, insisting that the food was much better than was provided by the professional chef in his own home. No surer means of reaching the heart of

ropping into the nearest chair, "that I shoul

e than an hour, and if ye'll pass in

he direction, but was

I ordered ye to bring

at which the storekeeper showed me was that po

tters at Ca

George that ye were looking fur, but