Golden Days for Boys and Girls / Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

fire of branches, from which came t

to my feet just as a heavy hand was la

re's a pr

with sallow complexion and glistening black eyes. His dress was a curious compound of broad

I had finished my survey, "a-busting down on a chap vi

les?" I repeat

y to the ground, and then I saw

ish and a skillet were scatter

hinking of just nothink at all, when all of a suddent down you come, like a cannon-b

tritely, "that I had no intention of

sudden descent, and wound up by

red his temper-if he had ever lost it, w

xcept putting my supper back half an hour

prepared the meal anew. And this he did with an adroitne

a pan of biscuits and a savory stew, and we were

sils in a brook near by, and lying at full len

ble curiosity, and I had about made up my mind that he was a gipsy, o

k 'e

that I was a

u?" he aske

ed, promptly, althoug

oined, after a long pause. "I'm a

doc

nking at me significantly. "I cures people as hasn't

to fathom, and on my intimating as

Toothache Drops, wot cures that hagonizing malady in one second, or money refunded-twenty-five cents a bottle. And finally, 'ere we 'ave the Great American Tooth Powder, which makes the blackest teeth vite in less'n no time, and mak

rofessional demeanor, and near the close he rose to his

led down, and assuming his recum

ou kno

id I; "but then

"You don't see no Balsam

do

onder vere

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t gravity. "I am out of those inwaluable medicines at present,

ou make

couldn't trust

a pause, he

let you into my secrets if- W

as, and told my f

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thi

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ng w

g my me

cried I,

ickly. "I ain't quite c

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talk? Are you

m," I answer

ou got plen

yes!

stand hup before a big crowd and blow away about

e prospect did not di

t the conversation to a

od," said he,

onished at the suddenness of the doctor's resolution, I thought