At the Chicago market, the other day, a pale-faced, solemn man took off his hat, smoothed back his hair, and said, "My friends ! we know not how soon we may fall by the wayside. We stand here to-day; next week we may sleep with the dead. I feel that I have only a few more days to stay, and I wish some of you would lend me sixpence, so that I can get a dish cf baked sheep's trotters." The crowd at once moved away.
The early years of childhood are the store-house in which are hoarded the impressions that last though life; in them arc gathered the influences that ajte to be ineffaceable in the after cav^ We never forget the teelings.. we «Sn experienced—the tones,- the gestures, the faces of those wo loved, or from whom we shrank, with the passionate intensity of our fresh hearts.
The foolish virgin on the train sitteth demure and quietly on her seat, but the wise one flirteth with the conductor and passetb free of charge.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3506, 20 March 1880, Page 2
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174Untitled Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3506, 20 March 1880, Page 2
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